a challenged landscape

anyone’s garden is a challenged landscape

Un scenic nature

Not fitting a vision of the picturesque

people search for something pretty or colorful, for scenic beauty, for the picturesque. Landscapes regularly provide that, but when they do not, we must not think that they have no aesthetic properties. (Holmes Rolston 1988)

anyone’s garden has aesthetic properties

if you take the time to look

discard prejudices

and cast aside cultural conditioning

anyone’s garden is not a picture postcard

or a scene you might find on a biscuit tin lid

it is a

living

breathing

landscape

so we claim

anyone’s garden

although ‘aesthetically challenged’

it is

in fact

beautiful