The Garden Series. Part 10.

 Okay, this is not the first garden series to appear in this blogging community.

I'm sure that most of you out there know how a garden series on a blog works.

A garden exists on a property - for some reason changes need to be made to the garden. This gives us a story that can be told in parts. Many parts.

Maybe the garden just needs tidying up, or maybe some trees need pruning. Maybe there's a side story, like the lights on a trailer aren't working properly. Maybe the main feature of the series is preparing for a trip to the tip or clearing out the woodshed. 

Let's assume that all these things happened in Parts 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

Let's cut to the chase.

Okay, go into any neighbourhood and you'll easily find lots of gardens. Some will be pretty and some will say, "Hey, I need a bit of maintenance work."

Let's be honest. Unless you can see from the road that the lawns are chest high, you're not really going to pay an average garden much attention. The best an owner of a suburban garden can expect is something like, "Oh, what beautiful roses!"

Gardens are everywhere. I mean, just take a walk down your street, in your suburb. It doesn't matter whether you live in Karori, Heathcote Valley, The Western Hutt Hills, Onekawa, The Whangarei Heads, Moera or Mount Eden. There will be lots of gardens.

Hang on, talking about Mount Eden, there was one garden that was far more famous than all the rest - The Garden of Eden.

This picture doesn't show The Garden of Eden in its
best light because all those animals would be shitting everywhere.

Okay, there a few things that we need to realise about TG of E.

• Sometimes local dogs shit on our property. Imagine the mess that all the animals in this picture would leave. Hardly a Garden of Eden! More like The Garden of Shit. (Just saying.)
• Pictures of TG of E were painted a long time after the event. Neither Adam nor Eve had access to a camera. Even if they did, they probably had no way to develop a film.
• In pictures Adam and Eve are usually depicted naked with belly buttons and a leaf stuck to their private parts. How would that leaf stay in place? Let's not even worry about the belly buttons.
• The Theory of Evolution, if it is correct, creates a huge problem for the actual existence of TG of E.
• Hello, snakes don't talk.
• God is very intent on making a big thing about Original Sin. No G of E = no Original Sin = God has just been wasting our time feeling guilty.

Bloggers in this blogging community haven't mentioned T G of E in their stories centred around their own gardens. Do they think their own gardens are better? Are they put off T G of E by all the potential animal shit?

Maybe we've had enough talk of gardens in this blogging community?

Maybe, one day, it might be time to talk about the details (12) of my violin practice?

Only time will tell.

In any case, let's leave the gardening thing there.

Here's hoping.