You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Funny the things that can throw you, and muck up your day. I was looking for the quiz this morning and right alongside was a real estate ad for a friend's much loved home and studio, stripped of all the things she had worked so hard to create, it reminded me of losing her two years ago. If I needed reminding. But the saddest thing was the way the way has been neglected, and it reinforced for me how much work goes into maintaining a much loved garden and just how quickly it falls apart when that effort stops going in to it. Her garden supported her families, all three of them, plus us hangers on, with flowers, fruit and veg all year round, and it has just been cleared out, all the raised beds empty, the fruit trees unpruned, the berry wires bare. But the worst thing? Her studio, described in the ad as a 'hobby room'. Talk about damned with faint praise, that studio produced masterworks that hang in many public buildings to this day...

Ephemeral things, the lives we human beings work so hard on.