The Gallery Week 20: A Novel Idea
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Tags: photos, meme, the gallery
Date: 21 July 2010 09:00:19
For this week's Gallery, hosted as ever by Tara at Sticky Fingers, the theme is a novel idea, the idea being to post a photo which represents a novel, tale, children's story etc.
When we went to Greenbank Gardens on Sunday (see post from the other day), one of the things I was thinking was that, although it was quite formal in how it was laid out, it also had a slightly wild feel in parts and it wasn't at all predictable. 
Which got me thinking about the classic children's tale "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It's been years and years and years since I've read that, so I don't really remember the story or anything much about it, but I do remember imagining when I read books like that when I was a kid that the gardens were that same mix of formal and wild/overgrown. Full of unexpected beauty, like this:
