Sharon's Garden, August, 2012

Frankie Surveying His Garden

Canadian conservationist and writer, Monte Hummel,* talks about

"getting to know a place so well that the boundary between landscape and self begins to dissolve, and what comfort that brings.

'Whatever this place may be," he writes, and here he's speaking generically about the special places that many of us know and cherish, 'it's a safe harbour that makes no unwelcome demands.  It serves as a source of sanity when everything else seems to be flying apart.  It is not an escape from reality, but a return to what really counts and what counts as real.'"

~ Harvest of a quiet Eye ~ the cabin as sanctuary, Lawrence Scanlan, Viking Canada, 2004.

* Wintergreen:  Reflections from Loon Lake.