Monday, June 30, 2008

Ugly/Beautiful

Here's a quick article from philly.com about an eccentric man and his garden. Skimpy on the gardening, but we share some thoughts:

"Ugly can sometimes be beautiful, but merely pretty can never be beautiful," he says. "Things that are really beautiful keep you coming back because they're not just attractive, they're compelling."

2 comments:

Weeping Sore said...

People who cultivate unusual gardens seem able to cultivate other unusual behavior, like "coaxing enchantment" from the prosaic world. You and Whimsey both have a refreshing take on the sublime.

Gardener of La Mancha said...

The sublime. Yes, I'd like to cultivate that.