THE BONES ARE THERE

MARTHA'S FANTASTIC GARDEN IN WINTER...

...WHEN YOU  CAN SEE ITS BONES

  

Tuesday, 9:00 AM.  6 degrees F at the ferry dock, 7 on the back porch.  Wind NW, mostly calm with occasional moderate to stronger gusts.  The humidity is 80% and the barometer is more or less steady, at around 30.65"  It just stopped snowing, and we have about 4" of new snow.  It is relentless; never seems to stop for long.  It occurs to me that this is how glaciers grow.

   I have written about Martha's garden before (use the search engine at the top of the page to see Martha's Fantastic Garden I and II, September 28 and 29, 2013).  Located on several city lots on the corner of 9th St. and Washington Ave., it is a wonderful garden of combined French and Chinese elements, what the French called a Chinoiserie,  and is the work of one lone and very determined woman gardener.  It is interesting to see it in stark design detail in midwinter. Of course most of the garden ornaments have been taken in, and the snow is Bayfield deep.
   But the bones are there, like a fossil in a museum.