Monday, November 29, 2010

Joy 63/82: Amarantine Garden

I was born with a brown thumb but I just planted a flower that I don't have to worry about freezing, dying or fading away. 

Enya has a song titled "Amarantine" and it started haunting me a few weeks ago so I looked up the word and found out that it refers to a flower that is eternal.  Enya uses the term in the context of love but I've decided to plant an "amarantine garden."  When I started laying the pavers in my backyard, I discovered that six of the little ones could be put together to form a flower shape that would be fun to mosaic.

I got a little carried away and there are now 21 of those flowers waiting to be planted.  The image is flower number 1.  It took a week and a half to finish ... this could take awhile.

2 comments:

  1. How fun!

    (I know that song well.)

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  2. This is sooooo cool!

    Love the flower. Love the idea. Love that you ahve the patience, vision, ambition, desire to plant such a lasting garden.

    And that is a beautiful song.

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