David and I visit Kensington Market every Friday after work to do our grocery shopping. We've been going with great regularity for a couple of years now, and the people in the shops we frequent have come to know us. We like it like that. It's somewhat old fashioned, but we enjoy having the connection of a small community in the midst of the big, anonymous city.
Often we have our supper at the Tibet Cafe - a restaurant that serves a strange mixture of different foods; we always get the "momos" - little dumplings filled with meat served in a light broth. Delicious. It is here we first saw the art of Sae Kimura, a lovely young artist from Japan who is visiting Canada for an extended stay. I loved her whimsical art and she had a little notice offering to do commissions. She offered to create something if you shared your dreams with her. It wasn't such a large step to think that she might be able to paint a new sign for our garden.
We met with Sae, and showed her pictures of the lot, and the blog,
and described some of the things that made our place special, and she
went away and thought about it.
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| Pines and rocks are common on our lake front |
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| A happy little frog having a rest on the bunkie window |
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| A yellow swallow tail |
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| We get lots of visitors on the bunkie windows. Considering how voracious the appetite of dragon fly is, it is amazing that we don't fear them. | |
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When we met again, she produced the lid of a metal drum (which she had found) on which to
paint the sign - and a few sketches of how she imagined the sign
would appear.We liked her proposal, and gave her the thumbs up to go away and create.
I knew she was talented, but little did I
suspect she would come up with such a perfect image for Kelly Gardens. We had
described some of the wildlife we saw and the many pine trees,
and she incorporated all these elements into the sign... and as an added
bonus, David and I are also included.
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| Close up to show detail |
When we find a place to hang it, I'll post more pictures with the "Kelly Gardens" sign,
in - situ.
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