Lush green fern - as a child we never had ferns like these
Gardens and steam trains. I grew up with steam trains. But not with gardens. I think we were too poor to have a garden - I mean a big, lush garden overflowing with beautiful scented flowers and exotic plants. We didn't even have friends with that type of garden. Do I regret it? No - absolutely not. I grew up with steam trains fired up with coal. You could see the smouldering coal inside the fire chamber. And you could hear the metal shovels throwing the coal into those fiery chambers. There was not time to think about what I did not have.
And that is how still live: I cannot regret the things that I did not have. Get on with living your life.
But - it changed. My wife started our garden in the Morningside home where we were living for on 41 years. And that is where I started gardening on 1 January 2013 - that makes me at almost 72 years of age a relatively young gardener.
That was the background story of me making this video. I don't know who the videographer of the train was, and I don't know who is involved with the beautiful music that I have used. I want to pay tribute to them and thank them for making - and that enabled me to create my story of a train and a garden.
Oh yes, you will see a sculpture at almost the end of the video. Who sculpted it? Me and two much younger people under the tutelage of Nicholas Smith - thank you Nicholas and thank you that you are still my friend.
I do hope that you have enjoyed it.
God bless you.
