September Festival
The BGP Art Festival kicked off today – and the garden in Charlottesville is full of excerpts from poems by local poets, gorgeous photographs by Laurie Tennent, and many fall flowers, from the glorious yellows of wingstem, goldenrods, and sneezeweed–with its brown pincushion centers–to the purples of Joe Pye Weed, asters, and ironweed with its royal mien. Here are a few photos from the last week, when I was scouting the paths to assemble the prompts and plan for my Sept 13th workshop “Wild Ink Walk: The Art of the Trail” from 3-4:30 pm, and from today after the art and poem excerpts were installed. They’ll be up all month! Learn more about the entire schedule here. This native plant garden is still under development, but it is already a sweet oasis tucked in a corner between the high school and McIntyre Park. For a bit more context (the poets did not choose these excerpts) here are the lines that surround the quotation posted in the garden:
“…Fall is/alive with the strangeness of yellow/flower, red berry, swift dark flying,/rattling upriver, not toeing the line/but towing it, pulling up stakes,/uncinching the taxonomy of love.”
From The Cusp of the Known World: A Field Guide,” in Species of Concern (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2005).
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