Wabi-sabi shedism

As The Blogs are not quite up to full level of fitness, BB and I popped over to the allotment to lend a helping hand.

I've been thinking about the allotment thing and discussing it with other devotees. It's a sort of fantasy place, you enter into another world where not only do you grow your own food but you can decorate your shed or layout the plot in any creative way you like.

It's almost expected that you'll decorate your shed in an eccentric way. It's liberating.

Here for instance is a surreal door. A door that denies it's function but become a fantasy Japanese Gate.

Now how nice is that.

Wabi-sabi

** 'Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It's simple, slow, and uncluttered-and it reveres authenticity above all. Wabi-sabi is flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings on this planet-that our bodies as well as the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. Through wabi-sabi, we learn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of time they represent'.