Thursday, December 13, 2012

The borrowed jungle



This is what the front lawn of Amber looked like before they started planting in the back.




I remember everyone who passed the truck that had these plants and soil in it had a big grin on their faces. On that dusty afternoon when all we'd been hearing was sounds of drilling through concrete and cutting stone with metallic scrapings that crawled along everything, it was so refreshing to see live, green things that took over the whole lawn. 




 I stood very, very close to the banana plants for a long time, just to get some green on me.





1 comment:

  1. they were planting in my garden too yesterday! in the morning it was all red with soil, in the evening - green with patches of lawn ready to take root in a new home. the edges heal like wounds and it all becomes one surface in a week or so!

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