Comments on: Garden

By: leslee

leslee — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:46:50 +0000

Very nice – text and photos. That poppy pod looks like something from another planet. Though odd enough that it’s found on our own, I guess. On second thought, it looks like it belongs at the seashore. Like the fairy tale ending.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:06:59 +0000

Yeah, those old fairy tales sure were hard on kids, weren’t they? But our Victorian ancestors believed strongly in the morally improving quality of cautionary tales, so they were pressed into service as children’s stories. Actually, from what I can tell, a lot of kids enjoy reading about the misfortunes of other kids. So, like, whatever.

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:38:10 +0000

Don’t ever refrain from commenting on anything. Your fearless and bottomless creativity are a gift not to be squandered. Anyway one does not have to have kids to comment on kids and this was about humanity anyway. . . I agree on too much kid pre-programming though. Actually the picture in which the little children disappeared and never came home is a nightmare scenareo. One minute they are there. Next minute gone. Have never really forgiven the Pied Piper of Hamlin for that gig. One sort of wonders if he was smoking a pipe rather than playing one.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:11:04 +0000

Thanks. Well put.

By: quiet regular

quiet regular — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:08:21 +0000

the poppy part is brilliant …the emptiness of temporary mind expansion, the asterisks as a re-mind that it happened.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:00:26 +0000

Hi Marie – Thanks for stopping by. I’m glad you didn’t take my comment about lilies too much amiss.

pauline – Glad this worked for you.

Rebecca – Oh good! That’s pretty much the narration I had in mind myself – more sinister than the text I eventually came up, as you say. (I toyed with the idea of including a picture of a sidewalk stencil of cannabis leaves, but decided against it since it was shot somewhere else.)

Ava – Thanks for visiting.

Hi, Joan – Since I never had kids, I should probably refrain from commenting on childrearing and drug use. I do think kids tend to be over-supervised today, and don’t spend nearly enough time in unstructured play, indoors or out. And I feel that the purely recreational use of drugs is disrespectful of their power.

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:53:07 +0000

Love the photos and the poems/texts . Quit trying to think of something clever to say about the comic-cigar look of the pipe after “gassus pipus explodidus” and “ferrous inflorescence “comments..but have to agree with Rebecca’s bold as brass statement. There’s something a tad ominous about the end. If we watch our children better might they then eschew the poppy?

By: Ava

Ava — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:41:25 +0000

What great pictures! Thank you for sharing them with us!

By: Rebecca Clayton

Rebecca Clayton — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:41:35 +0000

Dave, the story I saw was about floral morphology, and followed a course from subtle little grass anthers through bolder composite inflorescences seducing polinators, followed by bold-as-brass (or iron) individual flowers which could enslave addicts or (ominiously) watch children.

I think your pictures are much scarier than your text. Me, I take pictures of onions.

By: pauline

pauline — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:23:55 +0000

Oh – a keeper, this post! The words, the photos, merge into a garden of their own.