Stars at least equal to the plants
The bones of the landscape set the tone, lead our eye and
sometimes save the day. This is never more apparent than in late
winter when plants are bare twigs, empty spots in a garden bed, or
subdued in color.
Paths, pavilions, rocks, benches, gates, and solid,
seldom-changing items such as mature trees and hedges all fit into
the "bones" caegory.
Look for the red that caught our eye and pulled us out to the
landscape, mentally and physically.
Hint: Look between two tree trunks.
So go a little closer and look again.
In case you haven't spotted it yet:
The great thing about it? Intrigue. It made us look, and want to
go see. In doing that we discovered this:
Simple and fun.
And, as we walked around admiring it, we came upon this
secondary view and insight:
Something jarring here. Not that red and white don't work well
together but.... something.
Ah! What tone in the larger scene does the white bench pick up,
and amplify? The rail of the chain link fence way behind everything
else. A new addition by the neighbors, now we see one of the
fence's unexpected impacts.
What a difference it will make to move that bench out of this
scene. Look at the scene without the bench and decide for yourself,
whether that far off light rail can be renderd a bit less
noticeable then.
