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.
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