Gardens and Art
Were I to do it all over again, and neither television nor painting were in the cards for me, I can say with confidence that I could find life-long pleasure and satisfaction as a gardener. I've been drawn to gardening as long as I've been a homeowner, which is to say almost all of my adult life. And while the pleasure and beauty of gardens are well known and appreciated by most everyone, so wonderful are they that they warrant a deep analytical dive as to the nature of their particular charms. Normally, this blog is reserved for matters of visual art...and by no means should gardens be precluded from that subject. Perhaps the most obvious personage to link artist and garden is Claude Monet. Not only are his water lillies some of the defining works of Impressionism, but his gardens in Giverny to this day remain a major tourist draw for fans of the painter. Monet's garden at Giverny Monet's "Water Lillies" So, it's time to make the case for the gard...