{"id":2395,"date":"2008-10-11T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T22:20:41","slug":"my-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-house-project\/my-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"My Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nfolly |\u02c8f\u00e4l\u0113|
\nnoun ( pl. -lies)
\n1 lack of good sense; foolishness : an act of sheer folly.
\n2 a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, esp. a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A new visitor to Zanthan Gardens last week openly admired my failed garden house project<\/a>. Seeing it through someone else’s eyes, someone who did not know the history of the project and thus did not have any of the negative associations was refreshing. Yes, it was time I got over it and got on with it, I who do not get over things easily, if at all.<\/p>\n

I spent the day moving the potted plants out from under the protection of the back porch (where they can’t be seared by summer’s pitiless sun) to the deck. I took down the raccoon barrier<\/a>. I suspect that I will have a lot of broken pots and shredded plants in the pond tomorrow. But I’m working on developing a devil-may-care attitude.<\/p>\n

On seeing the gray wall, many people have suggested that I paint it pink or purple in keeping with a Mexican-inspired folk theme that is common in my South Austin neighborhood. I often wonder if I give off the aura of an old South Austin hippie. Although I have lived here since the mid-1970s, I never was a hippie…not even in the day. (Not that I have anything against hippies; it’s just that I’ve never been in with the cool crowd, not even then.)<\/p>\n

You see, I like the gray wall. We planned it that way. And it was the only part of the project that turned out even vaguely like we wanted. I like the way the bright green of the leaves and the yellow of the chairs (and the cannas when they’re in bloom) are intensified by the contrast against the gray.<\/p>\n

\"pond\"<\/p>\n

And if the wall were pink, it would really clash with the reds of the oxblood lilies nearby. And the orange dragonfly.<\/p>\n

\"dragonfly\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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