The photo is the glass top of a discarded metal coffee table I dragged home from some office discard sale. I painted the table with black Rust-Oleum, then I inverted the glass onto an old tablecloth and painted the same pattern onto the glass. When I set the thing back up, the paint side is facing the ground. It sits in my garden, waiting a time when I really get down to business about making that corner of my yard a real sanctuary with a pond, a bench, an arbor and a rain shelter. By the time that happens, I will need to scrape the paint off the glass and paint something else onto it.
Like the head of the donkey that splintered off of a charming little planter a couple years ago, the glass coffee table languishes in my untended and mostly ignored little garden spot.
I promise to get to it in 2010. Of course, I was going to get it done in 2009, but that trip I took over my son’s foot locker (cracking my ribs hard) took the wind out of that project. Literally. By the time I was healed, the cold weather was setting in and I’d lost all enthusiasm for the project.
I go out and take photos in the corner on nice days, to remind myself that I have this unfinished garden project.
But heck – my whole yard is an unfinished garden project.
And that is my life on this second day of 2010.
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