From “The Garden” by Andrew Marvell in Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively:
What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons as I pass,
Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness:
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade.
Hello!
This is the second of two posts with photos of grapevines from my garden, taken in April, 2022 and recently discovered entangled the backlog of my Lightroom library. The first post is Plant Entanglements (1 of 2). As with the previous post, the first batch of five photos shows the tendrils and leaves of a Concord grapevine; and the rest are from a Catawba grapevine.
Hmmm… I’m thinking I might sling a few of these grapevines onto black backgrounds just to see how they look; although — given the very tiny and fine details in some of the images — this may take some time….
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Man, a green thought in a green shade sounds pretty nice when it’s January in Wisconsin. I guess these vines put on a little purple, to give us a heads up there’s grapes on the way.
I think I should invent a new color and call it Aspirational Green — suitable for any shades of green we can find in the middle of winter. The purple on the vines always intrigued me, because I never really noticed it before aiming a closeup lens at them the first time… and it’s very close to the color the ripened grapes so you may be onto something!
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I like it! “Aspirational Green”