Garden Guardians

These gardens frolic all over our green city. This is one of my favorites located near the Fair Grounds where our Jazz Fest takes place. This angelic guardian seems to invite stillness and meditation. These are must do activities during the sultry heat of our summers.

Slowing down is mandated by our proximity to the equator. This guardian works along side Mother Nature to coerce the Type-A humans into a more reflective frame of  mind.

Peace, quiet, afternoon naps: these are the requests from the Guardian.

The quiet of a summer afternoon;

Cloudy with a chance of no balls.*

Required to do nothing in a Type-A world.

Settling into a thunder storm;

Waiting and watching sans weather Chanel.

Using human senses to determine where and when;

We’ve forgotten how.

i Pads have replaced eyes, ears and nose.

GPS and sky watching are our new ears and eyes;

Watch out for the falling limbs!

 Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,  by Judi Barrett