Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on April 14 2013, by Matt Newman
The winter months drag by with all the monotony of reading a dictionary, yet a single week in spring changes everything.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
matt does a super great job of daily commentary…enjoy his writing style which seems very appropriate for the topics covered….
enjoy reading Plant Talk and learn a tremendous amount each day….it seems that the tone of Plant Talk has always been polite and positive…
the photo above is beautiful and captures the essence of spring bursting forth…thanks, matt for sharing your view of nature’s display…
Barbara Reiner
(who also observes the’PLANT TALK’ feature ) —
I have sent in many comments on this site, several with fellow viewers agreeing with my message! It is sad you sense an impolite or unpositiveness; indeed, the intention was that the photo was so marvelous it deserved ‘POETRY’ and a dictionary-reading is not a chore but a learning experience.
Look at the writing again.
Take down your battle-shield — we’re all friends here – enjoy Matt – love the gardens – and look forward to this daily Email message.
Best to you!
I don’t know WHO typed the cutline for this blossoming-afresh picture, but they were decidedly WRONG. Perhaps they have not thawed from winter’s chill!
“The winter months drag by with all the monotony of reading a dictionary, yet a single week in spring changes everything.”
‘Reading-a-dictionary’ is preparation – just like planting bulbs, fertalizing, trimming, gathering up the dead leaves and all the chores of tending to something worthwhile. Winter is a time of anticipation. Spring, with all its pastel glory, is the reward IF you have prepared. Aren’t you excited to write your picture descriptions more poetically now that vibrant hues have reappeared? This garden haven, in which you get to live and work and experience such constant fullness-of-heart, deserves all-seasonal POETRY.