Beauty in a Garden 

Photo-Mike Elkins

Finally, I realized what makes my garden exciting is me.  Living in it every day,
participating minutely in each small event, I see with doubled and redoubled vision.  
Where friends notice a solitary hummingbird pricking the flowers, I recall
a season's worth of hummingbird battles.

   Janice Emily Bowers, A Full Life in a Small Place, 1993