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I just spent a delightful hour reading your story and then exploring all the gardens you mentioned. Since I can’t travel right now, I explored online! Wow – Versailles, Kirstenbosch, Kew, Monet – what a joyous journey. Like Maddie, I am now venturing a little further each day. Here’s a video I found that all of our folks might enjoy:
Hi Fuji, like you I ‘travelled’ the gardens when researching my story although that was a few months pre-virus. So many beautiful and amazing gardens and all of them on the ‘bucket’ list for some time in the future. Thank you very much for your feedback and the video – wonderful! Today the sun is coming out here in Australia and I’m torn between gardening and writing 🙂 At least while gardening… Read more »
Loved to read the description of the gardens through your writing. Very impressive.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThank you very much, Musing mind! I appreciate the feedback. This was one of the first stories I wrote using Zengarden prompts and I loved ‘visiting’ all the gardens and putting it together 🙂
Had to look up Kirstenbosch. I have been to Versailles, Kew and the Dutch tulip field, and seen Monet’s in his paintings, so thank you for taking us all on a tour of all those gardens in a few small steps.
Thank you, Susan. I’m so glad my story could bring a colourful break amid isolation and restrictions. I certainly didn’t imagine we would one day all be unable to leave home when I wrote it! I do hope I get to visit the gardens in the future. Thanks for the feedback!
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleWow! I can actually imagine this story happening! I’m really impressed. You have a way with words. In fact, i really liked the description.
Hi Sandra. First, I enjoyed reading your story – it’s so very imaginative. I have just returned back home from Australia and what I love about your country is the huge diversity of flowers, trees and of course the birds, especially the variety of parrots. I love their colours, amazing. I made friends with a family of magpies. They would come to the front door and warble till I fed them. Don’t… Read more »
Hi Eric. Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it. It was one of the first I wrote for Zen-garden and I thoroughly enjoyed ‘visiting’ all the gardens in the story. Our present Covid-life is surreal but it must have been even more so for you being in another country. I live on seven acres in Central Victoria and we have a huge variety of different birds; lots of parrots, sulphur-crested cockatoos,… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleI stayed in Victoria, and I remember also seeing black cockatoos in the next garden. I was told that it was a rare sight to see. A page for poetry – I would love that, as poetry is my real love. It wouldn’t have to be in a competitive way either, just sharing – like apple cores – Ha, ha.
Sandra, this story is so beautifully written and really touched my heart. A lovely, hopeful tale.
Thank you, Carrie! This was one of the first stories I wrote for the Zengarden prompts and thoroughly enjoyed researching and writing. So glad you liked it 🙂
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I love to be there in the garden since I really love flowers. I can’t imagine how beautiful your Dutch Tulips are. Very impressive. Thank you so much for taking me to your garden in a few steps.
Hi Lotchie,
I am so glad you enjoyed the story and it made you feel like you were there. I love flowers and my garden, too, and while working in the garden it’s a great time to think of new story ideas 🙂
It’s been almost a year since I first read this story, Sandra, but it popped up today on the Stars page so I had the great delight of reading it again. I have to say I think this is one of your best stories – it’s such a treat to think of all those gardens and a love so strong and patient that it can gradually heal a person who has been… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThank you, Fuji. I did enjoy researching gardens for this one but when I wrote it didn’t know covid would still be causing so much havoc. We are in lockdown again in the middle of a gloomy winter but it’s warm inside and I’ve been doing lots of writing, and dreaming 🙂 Yes, perhaps one day! I would like to think I would be as kind as my protagonist and I would… Read more »