The Garden

MARYS GARDEN - 1 -

De Rerum Natura - 7 -

1. The Great Trees - 9 -

2. Tree Orchids - 9 -

3. Shower Of Gold - 10 -

4. Flamboyant - 10 -

5. Frangipani - 11 -

6. Almond - 13 -

8. Rosemary And Thyme - 14 -

10. Rose of Gold - 15 -

11. Midnight Rose - 15 -

12. Night Choir - 16 -

13. Garden Storm - 16 -

14. Sea Wind - 17 -

15. Grass - 17 -

16. Water Lily - 19 -

17. Water Hyacinth - 19 -

18. Bluebells - 20 -

19. The White Chairs - 20 -

20. The Orchid House - 21 -

21. Ground Orchid - 21 -

22. Lilies Of The Field - 22 -

23. Fern - 22 -

24. Fountain - 23 -

25. The Cassias - 23 -

26. Solace - 24 -

27. Egrets - 24 -

28. Bougainvillea - 25 -

29. Marigolds - 27 -

30. Gardens Glory - 27 -

31. Hedges - 28 -

32. Orchid Mobile - 28 -

33. Sky Flowers - 29 -

34. Plumbago - 29 -

35. Poinsettia - 30 -

36. Crown Of Thorns - 30 -

37. Easter Lilies - 31 -

38. Cherry Ripe - 31 -

39. Pak Choi And Lettuce - 32 -

40. Sweet Pepper - 32 -

41. The Day Begins With Beauty - 33 -

42. Matins - 33 -

43. Firecrackers - 34 -

44. Paradise - 34 -

45. Mussaenda - 35 -

46. Venus - 35 -

47. Sunset - 36 -

48. Moonrise - 38 -

49. Hawk at rest - 38 -

50. Hawk on High - 39 -

51. Lightning - 39 -

52. Volcano - 40 -

53. Woodsmoke - 40 -

54. Death - 41 -

55. Flood - 41 -

56. The Overwhelming Sea - 42 -

57. Remembering - 42 -

58. Mongoose - 43 -

59. Ants - 43 -

60. Butterflies - 44 -

61. Bees - 44 -

62. Web - 45 -

63. Reading - 45 -

64. Ash - 46 -

65. Sunday - 46 -

66. QED - 48 -

67. Something Rain Does To Air - 48 -

68. Neighbours - 49 -

69. Memory Will Not Leave Him There - 49 -

70. Trumpet - 50 -

71. Night Of The Single Star - 50 -

72. The Shriek - 51 -

73. Butterfly - 51 -

74. Farming Is Different - 52 -

75. Blue Beyond Blue - 52 -

76. The Smell Of Memory - 53 -

77. Blue Sakis - 53 -

78. The Orchid Thief - 54 -

79. Spur Wings - 54 -

80. Frigate Bird - 55 -

81. Woodpecker - 55 -

82. Zoey Among The Flowers - 56 -

83. Miracle - 58 -

84. Tree Orchid - 58 -

85. Drought - 59 -

86. Imagined Garden - 59 -

87. The Lightness of Hummingbirds - 60 -

88. Jacobs Tree - 60 -

89. Pouring rain - 62 -

90. Fertilizer - 62 -

91. Dusk - 63 -

92. Seen Sounds - 63 -

93. Cloudless - 64 -

94. Sunlight In Rain - 64 -

95. The Perfect Flower - 65 -

96. Carib Sea - 65 -

97. The Facts In This Matter - 66 -

98. Strange Beauty - 66 -

99. Asphodel - 67 -

100. Lifelines - 67 -

101. The Green Limes - 68 -

102. Hibiscus - 68 -

103. Throwing A Hummingbird - 70 -

104. Idea Into Word - 72 -

105. 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 fir...