Nature's Canvas

                                                     Brenda Bryant

SHADOW SHOT

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NATURE'S CANVAS

An artist chooses carefully when a canvas is in view;

He knows exactly what's required for what he wants to do.

He'll size the canvas up and down and view it from all sides;

He'll take note of the texture and other things besides.

Does he want it pristine white, or with a touch of grey?

Does he need this size or that? And how much must he pay?

He stretches it, he fingers it, he ums and ahs a lot

Till finally he's satisfied with the canvas that he's got.

But Nature's not so choosy. Take this stretch of stony ground;

The sort that we don't notice when we're looking all around.

Unprepossessing! That's the word; with nothing worth a mention;

And why it would be chosen is beyond my comprehension.

But Nature chose to sketch on it a work that, you'll agree,

Is a delicate arrangement of leafy filigree.

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GARDEN GOSSIP


I pass this garden in the car almost every day
And every time I wish that I could while the time away.
The lawn is quite immaculate with never a weed in sight;
The shrubs are varied in colour and graded as to height.
Seasonal flowers grow freely, whatever the time of year,
But they always blend with the bushes that 'chance' to be standing near.
I show you just a fraction; the rest is like a park;
In every little corner, the gardener's made her mark.
I took friend Joan to see her; she has green fingers too
And she wished to ask some questions. Well, gardeners often do.
I thought this scene of ladies sharing their gardening lore
Was absolutely charming, so, camera to the fore,
I snapped this little moment, this sweet idyllic scene,
Wishing very heartily that my poor thumbs were green!
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