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A garden is a living collaboration of nature and art. Composed of numerous shapes and volumes of plants, it is a tapestry of green woven from a variety of leaf textures and colors. Flowers are lovely but secondary to the importance of the color green. It takes approximately 100 hours of weeding, digging, edging, and mulching to get the garden ready for the annual Peony Garden Tour in June. Over 100 garden enthusiasts toured the gardens this year and now we head into high summer. The garden is beautiful and a wonder to behold. Thanks for viewing this blog. Nancy
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   The garden: Once the snow melts and plants start to push up through the soil the garden becomes my work. As hard as I try to stay inside and work, I am pulled to the ever-changing green tapestry of my garden. Things happen fast in our short growing season and I confess that I don’t want to miss any of it. Early June is a flush of blue blossoms. Fragrant peonies arrive in mid to late June. July is delphiniums, roses, and lilies. New work, MS 108: Love Sonnets, 2014, size: 11 by 4.5 inches (h x w). Lettering and painting by artist. A book commission from one young lover to another, features a love poem realized in the favorite colors of the recipient, turquoise and earth tones. The hand lettered poetry travels from the foot to the head of the book with sewn in cut leave pages. The poem speaks of the innate feelings of love and the intertwining of thoughts and hearts. The text was lettered in gouache on arches text wove paper. Painted and leaf images cut out of Katie MacGregor's paper before sewing into the accordion fold book. Snippets of the lettering can be seen through the round holes and edges of the leaves. The binding is composed of two layers of MacGregor paper. The inner is a painted gold paper, which has a painted leaf cut cover wrapped around it. The book is held in a dark turquoise box lined with painted papers, which was made by Joelle Webber of Mermaid Bindery. 
Love Sonnet, 2014
 For all of the perceived convenience and ease of using a computer, for this lowly user, it has been a herculean task to navigate and complete this simple weebly website. But, here it is, completed to the best of my ability and I look forward to updating is on a regular basis. Many thanks to Danno and Joelle for their kind assistanceMy blog entries will be contained herein and archives of my blog may be accessed at: www.nancyruthleavitt.wordpress.com.
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