Housekeeping

I've been using this blog as a writing exercise, trying to strengthen my writing muscles to get myself in shape for something more ambitious. I've been doing it without any expectation that anyone is reading it. That said, even though I haven't promoted this blog (and don't foresee doing so), I am writing it on a publicly viewable website, rather than a private page. I'm doing so because even though this writing is still in the prototype phase (to borrow a term of art from the game biz), I want to feel responsible to readers, rather than solopsistically writing only for myself. And so this short entry is explicitly addressed anyone reading this who isn't me.

I feel compelled to write these comments because I'm aware that the recent entries, plus the ones I have planned, give snapshots of certain moments in the gardening process, but they don't begin to present a coherent picture of the garden, or my plans for it. Over time I hope these will inform the book I'm building up to, but I'm all too aware that someone dipping in one entry at a time might be annoyed at their somewhat scattershot nature. I hope that even if that coherent picture is yet to emerge, the individual entries will be worth your time and attention.