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Previous posts in the Digging Deep series:

1. Creativity
2. Imagining

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In Stage One, we invited our mind to look within and around us, to go foraging and gather up the berries and flowers of imagination. There is tremendous power in claiming our likes and dislikes, our dreams and yearnings, our aesthetic memories and walkabout observations. They are all fodder for the creative mill.

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Dry Betty is a tough gal, a little yellowed from years spent in the sun, but stoic about her position in life—which is affixed to a tree stake waiting for rain. Dry Betty is the name I have given my rain gauge because where I live, dry is her most frequent condition. Although she is usually moisture free, she endures brown strata of rotted mesquite leaves in her apex that I have been unable to dislodge even with a pipe cleaner.

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To kick off Year Three of the Garden Bloggers’ Design Workshop, we’re revisiting what has turned out to be one of our most popular topics: fences, walls, and other means of creating enclosure, separating spaces, and adding privacy and protection.

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February’s Picture This is sure to be another winner. We are delighted to have Roger Foley, a renowned garden and landscape architecture photographer, as the judge for this month’s contest.  His awards, publications, photo gallery and books are too numerous to mention individually. It’s worth the time to go on his site, Foley Foto to learn more about him and his work: the site is a feast for the eyes. Roger’s latest book, A Clearing In The Woods, is now available  online.

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“I have a nearly impossible job.  I am a garden photographer…. “

So begins my article in the current Pacific Horticulture “Finding a Sustainable Aesthetic …”; and so begins my lecture circuit this year with the subtitle – “… What is ‘Good’ Garden Photography” as I promote my book  “The American Meadow Garden”.  I don’t pretend to define a sustainable aesthetic but I know my job as a garden photographer is taking on increasing relevance in the conversation. [Read more →]