Sunday, February 6, 2011

Great Scot(t) in the Garden

DSC_2437_5848How do we get involved with gardening?  Necessity?  Not so much.  It typically starts our as a hobby that sometimes gets out of control.  Some of us have family that were successes in the garden and passed the green thumb along.  My father had a green thumb and so did my grandfather (on my mother’s side).  Those skills were necessities.  My grandpa was raised on a farm in the Scottish countryside but ended up in Edinburgh and a garden on Moat Drive.Scotts1932I wonder if he would enjoy gardening in Bakersfield, California where the hell like conditions are a far cry from those he conquered in the frigid north.  Would the arid environment just be another challenge like that he faced during World War I in Turkey?

Scotts1961 Even if he did adjust, there’s something that I simply can’t imagine him doing.  Dressing like a schlump as most of us do now.  Just can’t imagine it.

4 comments:

Sue said...

They certainly did dress well to garden "back in the day". My grandmother would be appalled at some of my get-ups!
:)

L said...

Do we know what the horse's name was?

MAYBELLINE said...

The cavalry issued horse has no name.

*Start America song - Horse with No Name.*

Lisa Paul said...

My English father-in-law has a special tweed jacket and tie that he wears to do his gardening. The British Islanders just seem to have much more gardening style.