Enjoying My Garden

After 15 years of working at shipyards, life insurance and investments, this year I’m on a sabbatical enjoying my garden.

I’ve been a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective, Sherlock Holmes, since I was a teenager, some sixty years ago. In his story - The Naval Treaty - Doyle wrote something for Sherlock that few have ever noted:

“What a lovely thing a rose is!"

He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

Here is a link to my YouTube page that you may enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OjzQKqFVo0

While most of my work since 2018 has been of documenting and recording the history of places we’re forgotten and often abandoned, it surprises people to see that my portfolio has many different galleries of work. Here is a gallery of images from my garden.