In our second project using the wonderful milled cedar from our land, I made a bench for a new shade garden behind our recently completed trellis.
Ellen had been working on the notion of a small private shade/meditation garden for our visiting artists and we had the perfect shady spot right beside the artist apartment. My friend Linda loves to do stone work and I asked her if she could make a circular wall around the garden and she jumped at the chance. Well jumped is perhaps not the appropriate term--it took her a year--but she likes to continually "rework" her art :).
Here Linda and Ellen think big rock thoughts over a power oatmeal breakfast. All of the rocks came from our land as well--we keep finding large troves buried around the property presumably from the days when this was a working farm and the farmers were clearing the fields.
After Ellen and I argued for a while about the location of the bench we put it right in the middle of our two chosen locations which of course turned out to be the best location anyway.
Our summer helper Mark leveled out the ground with more wheelbarrows full of fill than I want to recall and spread some mulch.
Never one to miss an opportunity to go to the plant store to fill up her car, Ellen has started to disperse shade lovers around the area while Frank supervises from the bench.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
--Marcus Tulius Cicero
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