One of the many reasons why well-maintained outdoor gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us to escape the tyranny of speed. Our skies are streaked with jets, our roads have turned into race-tracks, and in the cities the crowds rush to and fro as though the devil were at their heels. But as soon as we open the garden gate, Time seems almost to stand still, slowing down to the gentle ticking of the Clock of the Universe.

~ John Beverley Nichols (English writer, 1888-1983)

Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& ‘Garden Time’ advocate)

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“The first flash of color always excites me as much as the first frail, courageous bloom of spring. This is, in a sense, my season–sometimes warm and, when the wind blows an alert, sometimes cold. But there is a clarity about September. On clear days, the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big. The September storms–the hurricane warnings far away, the sudden gales, the downpour of rain that we have so badly needed here for so long–are exhilarating, and there’s a promise that what September starts, October will carry on, catching the torch flung into her hand.”

― Faith Baldwin (American writer, 1893 – 1978) in Evening Star

Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& fellow admirer of September’s gifts)

“I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.” ~ Adeline Knapp (American journalist and environmentalist)

*James took this photo in the rain at Kyoto Gosho, one of his favorite gardens in
Kyoto, Japan.

Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& garden-rain walker)