Miniature Garden

             Walter, the Gnome, is still alive and his garden is hanging in there. It has been 2 1/2 years since I planted my miniature home for this little guy. It came about because I was illustrating a scripture from Isaiah, read more here.

       I am glad my miniature is still alive and I find happiness looking for the tiny shell I put there, the tiny ladybug, and especially I love Walter's joyful surprised face.

“Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature—not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant….As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother’s toy garden.” – C. S. Lewis,Surprised by Joy