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September 30, 2009

Worth a thousand words

David E. PerryDavid E. Perry is one of those photographers who is as good with a keyboard as he is with his camera.

That's why his garden photo blog speaks so eloquently in both languages. Here is how he introduces himself.

If I were to somehow leave the impression that I consider myself some sort of gardening expert, I’d be misleading you.  I’m not.  I am instead a practicing gardener, still quite capable of unintentionally wounding and sometimes even killing plants that I really just want to nurture, a guy who despite that (ironically), has always found healing with his hands in the soil.  I’m also a guy who sometimes struggles with feelings of inadequacy in the presence of gardeners who can see so much deeper into a garden’s bones than I, so much more intuitively into a plant’s nature ...and let's not even  start with those who effortlessly rattle off the Latin names of every botanical specimen in sight.
His blog, he says, is about a "blue-collar love affair with gardens." And  "oh yeah, coupled with that, from time to time, a bit of shared expertise in the art of actively seeing ...and then capturing what one sees.  "

Perry was at the Garden Writers Association convention in Raleigh and here are his impressions, in both words and pictures, of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens on the campus of Duke University.

 

Posted by Susan Reimer at 7:00 AM | | Comments (5)
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Oh, my! "Talented" doesn't even begin the description. Nope. "Gifted" is also inadequate.....

Wow! I am so jealous!

Good to hear from you again, Dahlink. I thought you'd abandoned me over Michael Vick!!!--Susan

AMAZING.... I love your work! The red zinnia is truly magical and I do believe you captured that mystic feel!

No, Susan--I was just away for a while and had to cut down on my blogging. I'm back--and we can agree to disagree on Mr. V, I think.

Did you get my mail, btw? I sent it off before we left.

Welcome home! I did get your quotes and used a bunch of them....Susan

Susan--glad to hear it--I'm still catching up here after our trip.

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About Susan Reimer
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.
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