I took this picture when I was an amateur gardener, but a working professional photographer. Today I worked very hard pruning many of my shrubs so that I can get more light into my garden. Arthritis prevents me from working sun up to sun down. I have to go easy. But as I pruned and hacked limbs off a huge conifer that casts a deep shadow on what used to be my very sunny rose bed I began to think that this sort of thing, a nude in a garden is something I might want to return to. I have a few candidates I think I can photograph.
