The Garden

MARY'S GARDEN - 1 - De Rerum Natura - 7 - The Great Trees - 9 - Tree Orchids - 9 - Shower Of Gold - 10 - Flamboyant - 10 - Frangipani - 11 - Almond - 13 - Rosemary And Thyme - 14 - Rose of Gold - 15 - Midnight Rose - 15 - Night Choir - 16 - Garden Storm - 16 - Sea Wind - 17 - Grass - 17 - Water Lily - 19 - Water Hyacinth - 19 - Bluebells - 20 - The White Chairs - 20 - The Orchid House - 21 - Ground Orchid - 21 - Lilies Of The Field - 22 - Fern - 22 - Fountain - 23 - The Cassias - 23 - Solace - 24 - Egrets - 24 - Bougainvillea - 25 - Marigolds - 27 - Garden's Glory - 27 - Hedges - 28 - Orchid Mobile - 28 - Sky Flowers - 29 - Plumbago - 29 - Poinsettia - 30 - Crown Of Thorns - 30 - Easter Lilies - 31 - Cherry Ripe - 31 - Pak Choi And Lettuce - 32 - Sweet Pepper - 32 - The Day Begins With Beauty - 33 - Matins - 33 - Firecrackers - 34 - Paradise - 34 - Mussaenda - 35 - Venus - 35 - Sunset - 36 - Moonrise - 38 - Hawk at rest - 38 - Hawk on High - 39 - Lightning - 39 - Volcano - 40 - Woodsmoke - 40 - Death - 41 - Flood - 41 - The Overwhelming Sea - 42 - Remembering - 42 - Mongoose - 43 - Ants - 43 - Butterflies - 44 - Bees - 44 - Web - 45 - Reading - 45 - Ash - 46 - Sunday - 46 - QED - 48 - Something Rain Does To Air - 48 - Neighbours - 49 - Memory Will Not Leave Him There - 49 - Trumpet - 50 - Night Of The Single Star - 50 - The Shriek - 51 - Butterfly - 51 - Farming Is Different - 52 - Blue Beyond Blue - 52 - The Smell Of Memory - 53 - Blue Sakis - 53 - The Orchid Thief - 54 - Spur Wings - 54 - Frigate Bird - 55 - Woodpecker - 55 - Zoey Among The Flowers - 56 - Miracle - 58 - Tree Orchid - 58 - Drought - 59 - Imagined Garden - 59 - The Lightness of Hummingbirds - 60 - Jacob's Tree - 60 - Pouring rain - 62 - Fertilizer - 62 - Dusk - 63 - Seen Sounds - 63 - Cloudless - 64 - Sunlight In Rain - 64 - The Perfect Flower - 65 - Carib Sea - 65 - The Facts In This Matter - 66 - Strange Beauty - 66 - Asphodel - 67 - Lifelines - 67 - The Green Limes - 68 - Hibiscus - 68 - Throwing A Hummingbird - 70 - Idea Into Word - 72 - The Petal Shivers - 73 - Going Away - 75 - ABOUT THE AUTHOR - 76 - Sometimes, before I go to read, when the light from the sky is especially beautiful, I walk, book in hand, in the many spaces of the garden. I look up — a hawk soars from branch to branch sun flashing on its wings. I treasure everything I see. At certain times of the year the rush of blood in the flamboyants and at Christmas the fire-coal of poinsettias flame and glow. There are the sumptuous capes of purple orchids thrown across the arbour by the kitchen garden and fans of golden orchids blow along grey-mottled boughs. All about is hibiscus, the garden's glory, flowering anew every day. A vine of sky-blue blossoms half-cover a white wall, a curtain of heart-shaped leaves incomparably woven.