Roots and All, Ever so Lovely - from Back Garden Series Artwork

In the Back Garden Series I save all the dead and sometimes hidden, yet ever so very beautiful in their fallen solitude, leaves, seeds, twigs, petals, feathers, carcasses, peels, pods, shells, bark, berries, even bits of soil and stones, and more. The Back Garden is so loved and protected by our two dogs, Carmina and Bella. We have created a Boxwood Forest where the two dogs have their secret pathways and hideaways under and among the twenty or so five-to-six feet tall bushes along with lots of honeysuckle, and perennial flowers. A bird bath, a babbling fountain, and feeders of all kinds welcome all birds, finches, sparrows, grackles, robins, humming birds, chickadees, wrens, starlings, mourning doves, nut hatches, bluejays, woodpeckers, flickers, pigeons, and more. Owls and hawks and falcons come to prey on rodents living in tunnels under the bushes. Insects too enjoy the summer Back Garden, spiders, fireflies, butterflies, cicadas, gnats, ants, bees, wasps, and more. In the evening sky above, bats fly and dive feeding on mosquitos. We humans, too, delight in the Back Garden through all the seasons, eating meals on the tiny patio and spending evenings as light fails and darkness surrounds all of us and the moon shines down. We all do so love our little Back Garden.