But now I am six,

I'm as clever as clever.

So I think I'll be six now

forever and ever.

A.A.Milne

"There is nothing---absolutely nothing

half so much worth doing

as messing around in boats.

In or out of 'em it doesn't matter.

Nothing seems really to matter,

that's the charm of it.

Whether you get away, or whether you don't;

whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else,

or whether you never get anywhere at all,

you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular;

and when you've done it there's always something else to do,

and you can do it if you like, 

but you'd much better not."

Spoken by Ratty to Mole

in Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

Camping on the Beetle

circa 1997 

"Even in the smallest and humblest garden,

a sturdy hydrangea

at once proclaims the place

as the abode of a real gardner

rather than a mere purchaser of plants

to cover the landscape."

from

Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin, 2006

I love my yard.