I took this photo early today at the beginning of a day of intense work in the garden which included mowing the weeds in the north half, completing the weeding of the wall side bed, potting clippings and random transplants found during the weeding, digging the holes for planting several potted plants, moving rocks, and spraying insecticide on the new leaf shoots on young trees (last spring several were stunted by mite attacks).  

as a result there was little time or inclination for documenting, photographing and blogging but the above picture reminded me of some that i took last spring on a work site visit in eresso.  the first two are from the site itself while the rest are from the roadside.

perhaps the tapestry-like texture of wild plants shown in the images is my goal for the garden in spring to take advantage of the incredible variety and abundance of plants and flowers.  in fact, it may be that this visual model might also work at a bigger scale and guide the planning of the garden as a whole.