Storied Mind

Thanks, Stephany -

Good to see you here!

John

Thanks, Rich -

TLC indeed. Gardening is my wife’s passion – and she is able to envision exactly how an ensemble will grow and work together over time. An amazing ability.

Thanks for coming by.

John

Hi, John -

I just discovered your blog — I am tickled with finding such a treasure!

I love these photos — your yard absolutely looks like something out of a fairy tale! Thanks for sharing!

- Marie (Coming Out of the Trees)
http://mmaaggnnaa.wordpress.com/

Hi, Marie -

I’m so glad you like the pictures – and the blog, of course!

Thanks for coming by – I look forward to reading your blog!

My best — John

Hi, Stephany -

You’ve written quite beautifully about some of those moments when you found renewal in gardens. Your garden images are always beautiful. I get outside as much as I can just to be around the growing things, listen to birds singing and feel the sun. It always helps.

Thank you!

All my best to you — John

How beautifully you describe it! I believe you’ve put into words exactly what my wife feels and have also captured so well the peace that she and I share with the gardens around us. She is the one who has her hands in the soil each day, nurturing seedlings, transferring plants as they move from one life phase to the next. All this is great evidence of the spirituality that suffuses daily life – it takes getting the hands a little dirty to unlock the response to that power.

I’m so glad these images of her work bring you some of that peace.

My best to you –

John

Beautiful John. Nature is healing, I believe that too. It does strike me that you are being very modest. You also have artistic taste and vision I believe, even if your wife is the ‘official’ artist I always notice your carefully chosen art for each post – how it subtly reflects the theme you write about, and often is also gorgeous in its own right. Or does your wife also choose your art?

You too are an artist! Cheers

Hi, Ellen -

Well, thank you. I’m so glad you like the choice of photos. Sometimes it takes as long to find just the right image as it does to write the post – often because I limit myself to those I can freely reproduce under a Creative Commons license. But I’ve learned a lot from my wife’s visualization of what she wants. Like me, she has a hard time promoting her work, but it should be out there.

All my best to you — John

Creative Commons is a movement to get away from reserving rights under strict copyright law to sharing them with just a few restrictions. The CC licenses let you use an image so long as you attribute its source & also link to the license – some also forbid commercial uses and have other requirements. The caption under each image I use (unless it’s one of ours) has a link that says Some Rights Reserved. That link takes you to the Creative Commons site explaining the license. The rest of the site explains what the licensing is all about. There are other licenses that also promote sharing – like GPL. It’s a complicated topic. Most people online don’t seem to follow copyright rules, but unless they’re using images for commercial purposes it’s unlikely they’d ever be told to take something down.

John