Anecdotal Evidence: `The Work of Seasons and of Hands Unseen'

Anecdotal Evidence: `The Work of Seasons and of Hands Unseen'
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`The Work of Seasons and of Hands Unseen'

If a garden implies order, the backyard is less garden than semi–domesticated nature. A post oak pruned for horizontal sprawl and shade grows from a hole in the wooden deck. Twenty feet to the northeast stands a loblolly pine, suggesting an oversized bottle brush. Along the vine-covered fence grow Southern wax-myrtle, parsley hawthorn, oleanders, papyrus, two palmettos with trunks like artichokes carved from wood, and two sego palms – few flowers and nothing edible by humans.

As I write, ...