Worth a thousand words
David 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.
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. "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.
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.











Comments
Oh, my! "Talented" doesn't even begin the description. Nope. "Gifted" is also inadequate.....
Posted by: Eve | September 30, 2009 10:28 AM
Wow! I am so jealous!
Good to hear from you again, Dahlink. I thought you'd abandoned me over Michael Vick!!!--Susan
Posted by: Dahlink | September 30, 2009 6:16 PM
AMAZING.... I love your work! The red zinnia is truly magical and I do believe you captured that mystic feel!
Posted by: Bren/ BGgarden | October 2, 2009 1:45 PM
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
Posted by: Dahlink | October 3, 2009 10:15 AM
Susan--glad to hear it--I'm still catching up here after our trip.
Posted by: Dahlink | October 4, 2009 2:42 PM