" ON THE GARDEN WALL "
Robert Bateman

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10.625" x 6.5"
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"Although my favorite kind of country is wilderness which has been virtually untouched
by man, I do enjoy our human heritage, particularly where the works of man and
nature mingle in a mellow sort of way. I am not a gardener, but I do enjoy gardens,
especially old, traditional ones. I even find weeds intriguing. They indicate nature's
attempt to recapture the land that man has taken from her. It is also rather
interesting to find domestic plants that have "escaped" and
are setting off on their own.

This old garden wall has neen colonized by native lichens which gradually develop over
the decades. More recently an "escaped" nasturtium has taken over the wall in a more
flamboyant way. This is a plant that brings back many happy memories for me of
summers in the country and the flower gardens of farmers' mwives. With it go the
sounds of cows and barn swallows and the smell of fresh milk and new-mown hay.

The Chaffinch is one of the commonest garden birds, filling a similar ecological niche
to North America's chipping sparrow. I enjoy the soft gray and peachy buff which
harmonizze with the sharp black, white and yellow of the plumage."
- Robert Bateman

  

- On The Garden Wall - Robert Bateman

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