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The last of my summer garden minutes before the rain<\/p><\/div>\n

This week I have had the pleasure of pondering one of my favorite aesthetic notions; wabi sabi.\u00a0 Wabi sabi is a Japanese concept which embraces the paradox of beauty in imperfection, the appreciation of the waning, cracked, lopsided, aged, bent beauty that is abundant in Autumn.\u00a0 Here in the Russian River valley the vines are turning yellow, orange and red a bounty of color brought on in the cycle of a grape vines life – these leaves are turning brilliant colors before they give up and fall to the ground leaving their host branches bare for the months ahead.\u00a0 In my own garden the tomatoes are still clinging to their last green and yellow fruit, and the triumphant zinnia\u2019s that burst from my garden troughs clutch their last blooms.<\/p>\n

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The last of the Zinnias<\/p><\/div>\n

And so this morning with shears in hand and the gentle sprinkles of the impending rain tic-tacking on my rain coat I dashed to cut the last of the blossoms, clinging to summers color for just a few more days.\u00a0 In the house they won\u2019t last long, stuffed into the mason jars I pulled from the shelf, but I just couldn\u2019t leave them.\u00a0 I hurriedly gathered bunches of dried flower heads to store away, bursting with seeds full of promise for next years zinnia pageant.\u00a0 Earlier in the week, before the rain came, I had the pleasure of hiking the backcountry, gathering dried leaves, and grasses collecting red rose hips from the wilds rose bushes and dried heads of Queen Ann\u2019s Lace.\u00a0 In one of my favorite tasks as resident artist, here at The Bishop\u2019s Ranch, I am charged with making things beautiful for various events.\u00a0 So for this weeks board retreat I wanted to present Autumn in all it\u2019s wabi sabiness, gutted\"\"<\/a> pumpumkins stuffed with dry curling leaves, rose hips and darkened stalks and rattling seed heads graced the dinner tables along with autumn poems.\u00a0 Take a walk today find some humbling breathtaking wabi sabi, breath in the crisp chill air take in the waning light, pause and find wonder in the waning.<\/p>\n

Song for Autumn<\/strong>
\nIn the deep fall
\ndon’t you imagine the leaves think how
\ncomfortable it will be to touch
\nthe earth instead of the
\nnothingness of air and the endless
\nfreshets of wind? And don’t you think
\nthe trees themselves, especially those with mossy,
\nwarm caves, begin to think<\/p>\n

of the birds that will come \u2014 six, a dozen \u2014 to sleep
\ninside their bodies? And don’t you hear
\nthe goldenrod whispering goodbye,
\nthe everlasting being crowned with the first
\ntuffets of snow? The pond
\nvanishes, and the white field over which
\nthe fox runs so quickly brings out
\nits blue shadows. And the wind pumps its
\nbellows. And at evening especially,
\nthe piled firewood shifts a little,
\nlonging to be on its way.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Mary Oliver<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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