Accessible Gardening: Practical Matters For Physically Challanged Gardeners#4, 0 by Amargia

Amargia wrote:
(Jim using Kay's account.) I didn't do it to confuse you, Bonnie. I really didn't. lol. Hope you are feeling better. Sounds like you need to be running at peak with a schedule like that. Your right, Carrie. That photo does look sort of abstract. I’ve been putting different color combinations against the newly painted den/craft room wall to see if I like them. I’m not getting into flower arranging. It just happens that around here color is easiest to find in the garden. I live with the colors for awhile to see if I continue to like the combo. Sort of like my god-daughter does with her writing and art. After she finishes something. She ignores it for a couple of weeks. Only if she still likes it after that time will she send it out to publishers. I dislike painting A LOT so it is worth it to me because I don’t end up re-painting if I decide I don’t like it. Kay knows how much I hate painting and suspects I’m just dragging my feet on this project. .
I don’t think women realize that their eyes and minds are trained to have an aesthetic sense, practically from the cradle. We guys don’t get that sort of intense training. It rarely comes naturally to us. We have to think and experiment with it.
Kay maintains that just as youth is so often wasted on the young. Eyesight can be wasted on the sighted. A blind lady is teaching me to see colors. Lol. (Actually, Kay is considered “legally” or “functionally” blind. She still has some color perception in good light, but I wouldn’t want her sorting my socks. Lol. She can’t discern between black, navy and brown.) But, by nature of being female and, perhaps, growing up around professional artist, she understands what specific colors work to create certain looks. She’s decided it is time for me to fly solo, though. Time to find out what my personal tastes are. What if I turn out to have really terrible personal taste? Or, worse, no taste? Lol.
I like camping, Vickie. Kay, DD#3 and I made a trip to Canada to attend DD#2’s college graduation. We only spent one night in a hotel. We spent our nights at parks the rest of the time. A futon mattress fit perfectly in the bed of the truck and the truck has a topper. We even made little curtains for the windows so we never had the hassle of setting up a tent for ourselves. DD#3 had one of those one-person tents that assembled in minutes. We had our fans and enough extension cord to reach the park’s campsite outlets. It was easy and comfortable. I don’t camp much this far south because of the bugs. They seem to think my Yankee flesh is an especially tasty delicacy. Lol.
Kay won the debate. There is Queen Anne’s Lace in the craft garden. No one could remember seeing QAL along roadsides that are routinely mowed so the assumption is that it can’t be that hard to control. Another rainy, rainy day. It looks like very wet summers may be the new weather pattern. (Jim)
Photo: Because all the other colors are crisp and clean, I will relocate the beige colored lilies next year. See, I’m learning. Lol.



This message was edited Jun 5, 2010 7:52 PM