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MARY'S GARDEN - 1 -De Rerum Natura - 7 -1. The Great Trees - 9 -2. Tree Orchids - 9 -3. Shower Of Gold - 10 -4. Flamboyant - 10 -5. Frangipani - 11 -6. Almond - 13 -8. Rosemary And Thyme - 14 -10. Rose of Gold - 15 -11. Midnight Rose - 15 -12. Night Choir - 16 -13. Garden Storm - 16 -14. Sea Wind - 17 -15. Grass - 17 -16. Water Lily - 19 -17. Water Hyacinth - 19 -18. Bluebells - 20 -19. The White Chairs - 20 -20. The Orchid House - 21 -21. Ground Orchid - 21 -22. Lilies Of The Field - 22 -23. Fern - 22 -24. Fountain - 23 -25. The Cassias - 23 -26. Solace - 24 -27. Egrets - 24 -28. Bougainvillea - 25 -29. Marigolds - 27 -30. Garden's Glory - 27 -31. Hedges - 28 -32. Orchid Mobile - 28 -33. Sky Flowers - 29 -34. Plumbago - 29 -35. Poinsettia - 30 -36. Crown Of Thorns - 30 -37. Easter Lilies - 31 -38. Cherry Ripe - 31 -39. Pak Choi And Lettuce - 32 -40. Sweet Pepper - 32 -41. The Day Begins With Beauty - 33 -42. Matins - 33 -43. Firecrackers - 34 -44. Paradise - 34 -45. Mussaenda - 35 -46. Venus - 35 -47. Sunset - 36 -48. Moonrise - 38 -49. Hawk at rest - 38 -50. Hawk on High - 39 -51. Lightning - 39 -52. Volcano - 40 -53. Woodsmoke - 40 -54. Death - 41 -55. Flood - 41 -56. The Overwhelming Sea - 42 -57. Remembering - 42 -58. Mongoose - 43 -59. Ants - 43 -60. Butterflies - 44 -61. Bees - 44 -62. Web - 45 -63. Reading - 45 -64. Ash - 46 -65. Sunday - 46 -66. QED - 48 -67. Something Rain Does To Air - 48 -68. Neighbours - 49 -69. Memory Will Not Leave Him There - 49 -70. Trumpet - 50 -71. Night Of The Single Star - 50 -72. The Shriek - 51 -73. Butterfly - 51 -74. Farming Is Different - 52 -75. Blue Beyond Blue - 52 -76. The Smell Of Memory - 53 -77. Blue Sakis - 53 -78. The Orchid Thief - 54 -79. Spur Wings - 54 -80. Frigate Bird - 55 -81. Woodpecker - 55 -82. Zoey Among The Flowers - 56 -83. Miracle - 58 -84. Tree Orchid - 58 -85. Drought - 59 -86. Imagined Garden - 59 -87. The Lightness of Hummingbirds - 60 -88. Jacob's Tree - 60 -89. Pouring rain - 62 -90. Fertilizer - 62 -91. Dusk - 63 -92. Seen Sounds - 63 -93. Cloudless - 64 -94. Sunlight In Rain - 64 -95. The Perfect Flower - 65 -96. Carib Sea - 65 -97. The Facts In This Matter - 66 -98. Strange Beauty - 66 -99. Asphodel - 67 -100. Lifelines - 67 -101. The Green Limes - 68 -102. Hibiscus - 68 -103. Throwing A Hummingbird - 70 -104. Idea Into Word - 72 -105. The Petal Shivers - 73 -Going Away - 75 -ABOUT THE AUTHOR - 76 -Sometimes, before I go to read, when the light from the sky is especially beautiful, I walk, book in hand, in the many spaces of the garden. I look up — a hawk soars from branch to branch sun flashing on its wings. I treasure everything I see. At certain times of the year the rush of blood in the flamboyants and at Christmas the fire-coal of poinsettias flame and glow. There are the sumptuous capes of purple orchids thrown across the arbour by the kitchen garden and fans of golden orchids blow along grey-mottled boughs. All about is hibiscus, the garden's glory, flowering anew every day. A vine of sky-blue blossoms half-cover a white wall, a curtain of heart-shaped leaves incomparably woven.