The Structure Hiding Beneath

A good part of my gardening efforts remain hidden for half the year. I don't call it the tall flower meadow for nothing. At five to six feet high at the peak, the meadow obscures a lot.

The tall flower meadow only lasts six months of the year though. Another garden for the other half of the year was needed. I went looking for that garden today while waiting for the rains to begin, again.

I found it. I was also quite pleased to see major progress on my idea of a low mounding tapestry of texture and color on the slope below the cozy cabin coming into focus.

This other garden will have two purposes. As it continues to grow and become more prominent, it should provide an underlying cohesive structure in the wild Lush during the time of vegetation. In the barren time it is the garden, filled with winter interest.

My next stone project on this slope will add even more structure.

This lower portion of the switch back path is too narrow and uncomfortable to walk. A cut will be made and another short dry stack rock wall will be built on the uphill side to widen the path.

There is structure hiding beneath.

That becomes a bit like an abstract painting in the winter time. I will have something to ponder while the snow melts.

I will have plenty of things to ponder in the winter time garden. More Objet de's are landing in the garden all the time, to ebb in and out of view in the regular thick fogs of the barren time.