An Epiphany Moment from the Book "The Layered Garden"

Recently, I have been reading the book "The Layered Garden" by David Culp. The book's cover page promised something very appealing -- "if you thought that a four-season garden was beyond your reach, this book will show you how to achieve that elusive, tantalizing goal." Then after browsing through all the beautiful garden photos, I found myself connected more to the ending texts of the book.

"On one particularly memorable day, I was driving a back road on my way to a nursery and saw a front-yard combination that stopped me dead. On both sides of a sidewalk leading up to the front door, the gardener had underplanted orange daylilies and purple liatris with yellow coreopsis, using yuccas in full bloom as eye-catching sentinels at either end. ...

Though I saw nothing in this front yard garden that was poised to take the stage after this combination had faded, in that moment it was perfect -- and when you get down to it, these take-your-breath-away moments are what gardening is all about, what we are all trying to create. ... But life, after all, is lived only one moment at a time. The rest is history, or in the unknowable future. ... maybe because I am a perennial optimist, I have learned to pause and appreciate each moment as it comes, for what it is."