Time in the garden

Inside I'm working on The Day of the Dead--

Paintings for a show in October.

Outside I'm working on shaping and coloring my garden.

In Oklahoma I was raised to call it "the yard."

Garden meant an area where you grow things to eat-

a vegetable garden. Then there was the flower garden.

Today--I like to think of it all as "The Garden."

It's my outdoor canvas and all I need to do is look

which can be dangerous for Greg, because I always

see some way to improve--to refine. That's the fun of it.

My creation outside is like a ripple that keeps expanding.

I know when a painting is finished.

I paint the edges and give it my signature.

Maybe a garden is just on a much larger scale.

I can't do all the creating by myself.

The work required and it's possibilities seems to have no end!

I guess, it could be thought of as a series of paintings.

There are so many different areas.....

I'm working on the edges now, but the signature is not in sight.