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Garden Art

Welcome to my Garden Gallery: a series of pairings--- words and images.




Jewel

golden jewel red
epitome of summer
fresh art to savor








Sweet 100

tiny pow bam wow
flavor burst bests the contest
art to remember









Anticipation

green green months persist
red red rests on basil leaves
art's perfect still life







No More Dandelions

memories unsung
tots pick dandelions for mom
decades fast forward







Nasturtium

flowers edible
bright salad transformation
nature's garden art








Lobelia

fragile blues abound
fuchsia screams out loud see me
art alive in growth









Hot Peppers

tantalizing ting
tongue alive in sensation
passionate peppers










Mint

bright pineapple mint
salad enhancing spearmint
green art a la carte










Basil

bountiful basil
taste bud zinging singing green
graceful leafy art










Rosemary

memory's good friend
evergreen zest powering
graceful spears as art











Fennel

hinting licorice
tasty fennel fronds garnish
tempting living art














Sage

wisdom nature's gift
tall sage grows abundantly
witness garden art









Pleine Air Gallery

garden art to share
green peaceful meditation
love abounds in art



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Author notes

A visit to my patio,
courtesy of cell phone camera,
technology and imagination...

But alas for the top tomato,
for it gave up it's life tonight
to enhance our bountiful salad,
along with a bevy of cherry tomatoes.

But its portrait lives on!!!

In a list

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  • Paloszoo gold member
    September 2

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    Wow, I'm impressed with the lovely walk through your luscious garden! Beautiful haikus demonstrate your love for nature and gardening. Well done! Thanks so much for entering my haiku contest. It's a pleasure reading your fine work


  • Haiku-bless-you silver member
    August 21

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    What a wonderful herbal Haiku gallery! Each plant adds to the richness of the scent and taste for the discriminating palate. I love the mesh of natures art, beauty and functionality. Thank you for the Poetic tour of your wonderful herb garden, a well thought out visit!

    Dennis


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 21
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      Glad you enjoyed it.
      Created another this year---the cell phone so handy to snap and connect!!
      Thank you, Dennis, for taking time to visit.

      M-C


  • joyfuljossie
    April 20

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    eekkkkk!

    This is glorious!!! So breathtaking... I love to garden as well. Thanks for sharing with me. I could actually smell and taste these beauties pssssst- Congrats on the gold!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      April 20
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      Soon, soon, I say, but the temps in low 30's today!
      Note everything is planted in containers.
      Quite a few are wintering in the graage,
      the big spike in the tall blue pot
      on its fifth year. The garage herbs
      are growing under lights now,
      but won't take the chill of June
      nights in Wisconsin, so will be
      replanted!

      Thank you, gypsy.

      M-C


  • Lee Tai Wah
    September 25, 2008
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    Hi Aesthete

    Beautiful!


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 25, 2008
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      Lee, glad you found it!
      But now Autumn has yellowed the tomato leaves.


  • Peteskid gold member
    September 18, 2008

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    Congratulations on the Gold...but then again it is no surprise... Basil and tomatoes a favorite combination to my palate too... i grew some once and put it up in olive oil, used it for cooking french and thai styles for a long time...so many wonderful photographs brings so many nice memories and ideas of things I meant to do[ I think we all have some meant-to-do's]...thank you...PK


  • MargaretG
    September 4, 2008

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    This page is a summer festival! Congratulations for your contest win!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 5, 2008
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      Ah, Margaret! A summer festival!

      I had been intent since Spring
      on "saving" the seasons in
      photos and words. I'm always
      amazed everything keeps
      growing for me!

      Thank you,

      M-C


  • Blushfulmoon silver member
    September 4, 2008

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    congrats

    Congrats on first place for your haiku
    Love it...and the pics just added to the ku
    Congrats again sis
    Hugs
    Susan~~~

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 5, 2008
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      Thank you, Susan!

      I wanted to update the scene,
      show the bright ripened color,
      but also reveal how the hot
      summer months were yellowing
      the greens. The facts of the seasons!

      M-C


  • Maureen silver member
    September 4, 2008

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    CONGRATULATIONS on winning GOLD, M-C! You deserved it! Beautiful photos and excellent haiku!

    <3 Maureen

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 5, 2008
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      Maureen, thank you for stopping in
      and leaving such kind words!!!
      All the early growth motivated me
      to get the cellphone pix to computer
      process working well for me!

      M-C


  • angelica silver member
    September 4, 2008
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    CONGRATULATIONS M-C for winning GOLD


  • bozoloper
    September 3, 2008

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    you really need to write some sort of photo/art/poetry cook book and gardening guide, this could be the intro! i like the part about the cherry tomatoes, and i'm extremely jealous of your garden. the rats stole my only two tomatoes!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 3, 2008
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      Awe, sorry about your tomato plants.
      Raised garden, big pots on a bench,
      checken wire???? Thoughts for next year!


      Ah, great idea, the book you dexcribe.
      Need an infusion of energy to tackle such
      as that, for it's the after stages that
      determine whether it happens or not, the
      publisher, the market process.

      Getting zapped too fast lately.
      And now have oreders to paint, too!
      Yes, all in due time!

      So nice to see you here!

      M-C


  • Mari Goes gold member
    September 2, 2008
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    Loved the photos you added with your comments!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 2, 2008
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      Hi, Mariza!
      The scene changes quickly;
      heat, cool, then excessive heat again
      ripen the bounty, but take a toll as well.
      Thought I would update with pix from
      the last week of August.

      Nice to see you here, Mariza!

      M-C


  • moon2u
    September 1, 2008

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    Those tomatoes are so plump and juicy looking
    I have this sudden craving for a BLT sandwich!
    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    omg! it is mad mass exodus of Vegetables all seeking to exit the garden at once!
    sorry Aesthete
    hugs Moony

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 1, 2008
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      I love it---the mass exodus---everything ripening at once!

      My counter boasts two big baskets of tomatoes, Early Girls and Big Boys and a load of Sweet 100s cherry tomatoes.

      Dare you to do something with those names.

      Big disappointment, the "Fantastics"---barely ten so far on the whole plant. Yeah, those flashy ones, promises, promises!!!!

  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 29, 2008
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    No green thumb here, errant seed pod lodged
    in the tiny space between patio and brick wall,
    voila! A tree grows!!!

    Oops, knocked off a couple cherry tomatoes!

  • Maureen silver member
    August 28, 2008
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    Your herbs and plants look so healthy (I'm sure the tomato was delicious)!!! Do you talk to your plants? I recently saw a movie where the grape grower talked to the grapes. Gorgeous Garden Art! Wish I could do what you do!

    Great haiku's, too, by the way! Best of Luck in this contest!



    <3 Maureen

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 29, 2008
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      Hi, Maureen!

      Well, since I water under moonlight. usually the neighors are all tucked in, so I can thank my green and red guys
      for their perseverance.

      That big spike in the tall blue planter is on its third year, and the bayleaf and basil on the fence side on their fourth year---as my strong buddy moves them into the garage each winter. I resort to wheelies underneath to move the
      other big guys.(The other garden pix are in "Energy.")

      Just below your comment is a pic of the same cherry tomato plants taken just two days ago, so you can see how the heat and extreme sun like to yellow the leaves, and thus thin the plants, when I trim away the fading leaves.

      The joy of container gardening, arranging the containers
      until pleasing to the eye, and having everything easily
      accessible.

      M-C


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 28, 2008
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  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 28, 2008
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    More late August delights---lots of cherry tomatoes!
    Same plants as pictured above amidst the stanzas,
    but showing the wear of Summer's hot sun


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 28, 2008
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    Late August update---
    peppers turning the expected bright red...


  • maa gold member
    August 25, 2008

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    oh how much I love your living garden art ...
    I can sense the life sparkling, the fairies giggling and the sunrays tickling all those rainbow flowers, fruit, herbs and veggies ...

    I have finally succeeded to grow 4 tomato-plants in a pot and have harvested "THE tomatoe" a few days ago ... the only one, but it really tasted nice ...

    I should take some courses with you, I guess ...

    keep on enchanting us with all you do, lovely fairy mary ...


    marion


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 29, 2008
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      For you, maa!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 25, 2008
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      maa, for quantity, try cherry tomatoes.
      This year I have ten plants of Sweet 100s,
      the name indicating each plant should
      100 cherry tomatoes. so far the harvest,
      closing in on 300!(And the best pop of flavor!)

      The three medium large tomato plants, about 40 tomatoes
      so far.

      But, oh, those hot days----causing the leaves to yellow.

      But joy, early this morn, after a moderate day and a very cool night (dew sprakling on the grass) NO MORE yellow leaves since I trimmed them away the day before!!!!

      Plants are now thinned out compared to the pix above taken in July when just budding.

      After watering, the best aromatic enchantment, herbs in
      the air. And now that the cherry tomatoes are in abundance,
      impromptu salad for the snacking hose wielder, tomatoes,
      basil leaves, mint, oregano---patio buffet by the handful!!

      A true maa meditation!

      M-C


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 23, 2008
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    Visiting Jake marking his space.


  • Summer52
    August 23, 2008

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    Magnificent hues !

    From fruit tomatoes
    To your splendid floral,
    little artful garden.

    Love the colors, Mumsy!


    Summer


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 29, 2008
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      Flowers still holding their color.
      Sending to you, summer, to brighten your day!

      Mumsy

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 23, 2008
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      Hi, summer!

      And not too acidy,
      so you could have
      some, too! Hope
      you are feeling better.

      So nice to see you here!

      Mumsy


  • moon2u
    August 22, 2008
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    MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

    edible garden art
    totally deliscious
    hugs Moony


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 29, 2008
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      There you go, Moony!!!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 22, 2008
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      A hug and a big tomato
      back at you, dear Moony!!!

      Zillions of cherry tomatoes now!

      So good to see you back here again.
      Thank you for visiting!

      M-C


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 21, 2008
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    Farewell day lilies,
    your days have come and gone,
    but your beauty lives on..
    in another form.

  • leahmcgee
    August 20, 2008

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    Aesthete....thank you for the wonderful tour of your patio gallery where nature and art are flourishing to feed both body and spirit. Your photos and words made for a lovely visit.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 21, 2008
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      Leah! You are here!!!!
      Great to read your words!!!

      Now Yem will have to truly believe
      you are a real person, not a fictitous
      bio on a page, as he did at first!!!!!!

      It does indeed have a calming spirit,
      especially under the hide-and-seek moon
      evry night. Clouds here and there, but
      NO rain for three weeks, lots of sun.

      Hope your balcony plants are doing well!
      And the kitties?

      M-C


  • hugh wyles silver member
    August 20, 2008

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    Dear Aesthete,

    A fantastically beautiful collection of pics and haiku but the SPCT (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Tomatoes) is considering punitive action.
    I have teied to point out to them (on your behalf) that it was actully a tomartyr.

    Applause, good luck in the contest. (You didn't number your haiku BTW!)

    Love and hugs, XXX Hugh (R.)

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 21, 2008
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      Hugh, a tomartyr!!!!!!!
      It appears Yem and Ima
      don't have a lock on
      the creative humor!
      A good one!

      Please, no numbers...
      it's all one "story"--
      uno--une--a collective piece.

      I inserted the sub-titles
      as I was entering, for I
      was posting the wrong pix
      with the words, getting lost
      in the long lines of code
      and trying to get the spacing
      just right. I had intended
      to remove them after all was
      set, but visitors had already
      come in to read and comment.
      So I left them in place.

      I don't consider this work as separate
      pieces, but rather commentary as one
      strolls thru my garden gallery.
      One composition made up of many parts.

      Returning a big smile, love and hugs!!!

      M-C

  • Blushfulmoon silver member
    August 20, 2008
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    beautiful~

    Ohhhhh
    I love this
    Esp the nasturium and lobelia......
    Best of luck in the contest...the art alone is a winner
    Hugs
    Susan~~~

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 21, 2008
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      Thank you, Susan.

      I was so happy when the lobelia bloomed
      as they had been a gift to me in a pre-planted
      container. A former Summer Theater student of mine
      from years ago came to visit in May, bearing green.
      The beautiful blooms remind me of her success
      in her career, for now she is the chair of the
      English Dept. of a college in Colorado.

      Now to keep them happy thru August!

      M-C

  • bozoloper
    August 20, 2008
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    i'm still jealous of your garden! i like the stanza about the hot peppers, they are passionate!
    your tomatoes look great, it's a great mix of words and pictures!


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 29, 2008
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    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 21, 2008
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      Loper! So glad to see you!
      Looking forward to seeing
      you more often again.

      The long, long wait
      from green to red,
      and yours don't want
      to reproduce? Sad.

      How is your basil doing?

      M-C


  • Olivias Violin
    August 20, 2008

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    I enjoyed this so much!
    especially Lobellia, Nasturtium and Jewel

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 20, 2008
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      Hi, Olivia!
      Good to see you here.
      Glad you enjoyed my view of colorful,
      which is far from the richness
      you describe as seen in your climate.
      But we make the most of the growing season!


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 20, 2008
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    As a base for the tomatoes...


    • J aime Coudre silver member
      August 20, 2008

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      HI, I was just browsing your garden again and think I love this photo best ...very artistic arrangement with the cabbage, purple things and I think onions or chives...

      • Aesthete2000 gold member
        August 21, 2008
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        The red leaf lettuce I snipped and snipped,
        as also the chives. The light green is a head
        of some kind of bib lettuce, but I snipped it down
        like cutting leaf lettuce and it came back again.

        The pic was taken in early morning light
        with just a touch of sun, which had just
        peeked out behind the tall evergreen
        that was still keeping the container in shade.

        Thank you, Darlene, for coming back again
        and looking around!!!

        M-C


  • gaze
    August 20, 2008

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    Wow, your cell phone must have a great amount of pixels, the photos are wonderful! Jewel is my favourite.
    Sorry about the tomatoes...gone in the red of their lives
    Very delicious page

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 20, 2008
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      Hadn't reserched the camera capabilities
      of the phone as much as I should have,
      so I lucked out!! Outdoors much better
      than the indoor pix, as the tomatoes
      in the basket. Most were taken in
      early morning light, part sun, part shade.

      "the red of their lives"---hah!
      I almost hate to cut them up!

      M-C

  • angelica silver member
    August 19, 2008
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    Dear M-C,
    A beautiful display of pictures and haiku's, you certainly have what is known as a green thumb. Me, I'm hopeless. My three favourites are the Pleine Air Gallery,
    Lobellia and Nasturtium. The flowers are so beautiful.
    Good luck in the contest.
    Joan

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 20, 2008

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      Oh, don't say "Hopeless."
      In the years when I had a good back and knees
      (can barely remember them!) no time to plant much
      in the ground. But the joy of containers, with wheelies
      underneath for the heavy ones. Since I live in the "land of frozen tundra" (WI) Summer goes quickly, and the containers
      over-winter in the garage, with hardy herbs like rosemary
      and mints producing long into the cold, just with lights
      over their heads.

      I bet some container plants could fall under your kind
      influence and flourish.

      Thank you, Joan.

      M-C

      • angelica silver member
        August 20, 2008

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        I guess so M-C I do have a memorial garden for my Son that both Bob and I look after with roses in it and I'm thinking of planting other plants in there, not sure what yet.

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          August 20, 2008
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          It's the battle with nature, it seems,
          that prevents us from having the beautiful scene
          we see in our minds translate to living, growing
          plant life. Too little or too much rain,
          and that hot burning sun!!!

          Several days of near 90s and the tomato leaves
          curl and turn yellow, even in containers with
          a water base, and watering daily. Like too
          much of any good thing.

          With hopes that the memorial garden
          helps to soothe your heart...


          M-C


  • Pisces rainbow gold member
    August 19, 2008

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    dandelions bring back memories

    my mom loved dandelion salad, I use to love picking them in field across from my gram house,

    delicious garden wow really need a salad now.

    umm cherry tomato salad with basil.

    my fav. 

     art is gorgeous

    lovely visit to the art gallery

    spectacular!

    thank you for sharing your beautiful garden.

    God bless my friend always... 

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 20, 2008
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      Pisces,

      I am happy to stir up
      your taste buds
      so ideas of salad
      drift through your head!

      Lucky we are when basil
      grows well. Two of the plants,
      tho watered daily, have been
      shrinking from the hot sun
      of the past week.

      Thank you for visiting
      the garden gallery!

      Aesthete



  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 19, 2008
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  • waydownuponjoy
    August 19, 2008

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    Amazing Gazing ...

    There's lots of life
    that shines right through,
    these pictures - and sweet songs.
    I could not judge,
    from where they grew,
    that act to God belongs.
    But what you share
    Is just the treat,
    fresh like peppermint gum -
    I ‘d like to add
    you’ll take first prize,
    for having that green thumb!
    Now don’t you fret
    nor think me wrong,
    for I could sit and gaze,
    Into that place
    you make with love
    and ev’ry day rephrase …

    © 2008 Joy A. Burki-Watson

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 19, 2008
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      Sharing the bounty..
      Wish I could snip some herbs
      and send them along with you.
      Loving your joyous rhyming words!

      Thank you, Joy, for sharing your thoughts
      in such a special way.

      M-C

  • MargaretG
    August 19, 2008
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    You are multi-talented! These photos are great, so lush and succulent looking herbs and tomatoes. I wish I had my herb garden now.
    Oh well, your haiku fill my imagination with the taste. Best of luck!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 19, 2008
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      Margaret, nice to see you here!

      A week of hot, hot sun,
      takes its toll, despite
      watering daily. The dreaded
      yellowing leaves appearing
      within the tomato plants,
      so it's snip and pull
      to clear them away.

      Thank you, Margaret,

      M-C


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 19, 2008
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    Late June, 2008, waiting for the tomato plants to bud...


  • J aime Coudre silver member
    August 19, 2008
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    Not only do you write beautiful haiki but you grow a beautiful garden. Enjoy!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 19, 2008
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      Thank you, Darlene.

      Arranging the words on the page
      an easier task than toting containers,
      and then encouraging the growth!
      But satisfaction from all phases.

      M-C


  • arafura gold member
    August 19, 2008

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    What a tasty trio! Your garden, your art and your poetry. Gee those tomatos look good, as do the herbs.
    Wonderful!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 19, 2008
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      Hi, arafura.

      Good to see you here!

      Container gardening is all I can handle,
      so luckily, it works well. Not the bountiful
      crop as in the ground, but plenty to keep
      me happy!!!!

      Thank you.

      Aesthete


  • Yemassee gold member
    August 19, 2008

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    Wow, cellphones take good pictures, who'd uh thunk it.

    Beautiful contemplative, philosophical pieces. And of course great photos...I'm envious of the tone and the green thumb! And as an eater supreme, I'm envious of those who will get to dine on them. I've actually grown most everything in those pictures at one time or another, the herb and regular garden fell into disrepair from laziness but I have future plans just months away.

    Inspiring words and equally inspiring photos...want some good old fresh from the garden tomatoes, will go look for a farm stand this weekend.

    She entered! And I see there are 30 entries, guess I better get to reading a few more.

    Pass me a tomato...No, not the hot pepper!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 19, 2008
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      Passing a twin to the top photo...
      along with some sprigs of rosemary
      for rememberance, so those garden plans
      get put into action. Months away?

      Quick before the ground freezes!!!

      I bow to your past gardening experience.

      Thank you for visiting my garden gallery
      and planting such nice words!!

      M-C

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