Englightenment
The newly painted Buddha sits by The Path of Enlightenment. He is watched over from The Stump of The Tree of Knowledge by the freshly painted Black Cat of Vigilance... Also serving and protecting Lord Buddha is The Hosta of Fertility.... And The Gnome of Loyalty... Further up The Garden of Munificence and just starting to grow are The Courgettes of Zucchini... At the end of the garden we have an oak tree that I grew from an acorn I had collected at The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin. In the last ten years that tree had grown too big for our liking and was becoming problematic both for next door and for our vegetable plot - creating too much shade - so in March I sawed and pruned it back pretty severely. I didn't want to kill it and sure enough new but delayed growth began to emerge from what remained. You may not get this but some of the oak leaves that have appeared are massive - about the size of my hand. They are seven or eight times ...