Krista’s challenge…where/what would I rather be/doing…is quite easily answered, but then again – maybe not. It is not easy to pick some special activities among so many interesting things I like to do.
In the header is one of the last pictures of my Dream Garden, that used to belong to an old couple I have known for many years. Last summer their garden was sold, and those who bought it, immediately changed it for ever. I’d rather be with my old friends in their fantastic garden – but I know this dream belongs to the past.
Generally I am rather happy as I am…but here are some more suggestions:
I might rather be…walking the streets of Rome, enjoying its history while passing old and abandoned buildings.
I’d rather be attending interesting exhibitions…
And I’d rather be hiking new and exciting landscapes…
But, most of all, I’d rather be walking my everyday paths in the forest, with Totti. Hopefully, in some weeks, finding the forest floor exploding with white wood anemonies. Oh, the joy!
So sad to see that garden is no longer a living treasure. Did they replace it with concrete?
Last time I passed there, they had shovelled up big heaps of earth…
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Count me in for any all and of your rather be’s Ann-Christine! And that garden – oh my, why in heaven’s name would someone change it?! Beautiful captures all.
Thank you, Tina. Yes, Why…
At first glance I thought, you already have so many flowers and I started to envy you 😉 Here tomorrow we are going to have snow again…
Oh, Awa – if it only were true about the flowers…Snow here again as well. Many degrees below zero and a biting wind. We all long for spring now, don’t we?
Oh yea. Here today we have a lot of sun but the temperature stays below zero. Spring, where are you?!
If you find her first – be sure to tell her where to go…😉
I found it. It’s in Death Valley from my today WPC post 😀
Love your dream garden!
I so wish it would still be there!
You’re right, there are so many things we could be. Let’s just be thankful. 🙂 🙂 Love your garden header. What a shame!
But we are quite happy with things as they are with us – I agree. Thankful we should be – and we are – every day. And I still cannot walk the path past that old garden. It hurts too much.
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Love those first two shots, A-C.
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Thank you – and…how I loved that garden. My heart aches every time I look at those shots.
It’s a gorgeous garden, A-C. I understand why you feel that way.
I can’t believe that someone would alter that beautiful garden. When I saw that opening shot, I felt a sense of longing- it is so beautiful. And Rome, yes, I wouldn’t mind being there too.
My heart aches when thinking about that garden – to think it is gone forever. All that work gone into it, all those travels and all those meticulately arranged plants, steps, old trees and – Yes, I can feel that sense of longing …
What a tragedy with that garden……but once we leave a place, it isn’t ours anymore
That garden pic is gorgeous 🙂 Looks like it came out of a fairytale.
Yes, it does – and that garden was the home of fayeries…Thank you for commenting.
I can’t believe anyone would want to have changed that beautiful garden. What a shame.
It is really ashame. I cannot bear walking that path anymore. Just to see the trees they have teared down and the rare plants trampled or dug up. I hope the old couple never goes back to see what became of it.
Me too, it would be heart-breaking for them I am sure.
I think that is why they never come by anymore. And somehow I do not want to tell them what has happened.