Artists' Trading Cards: My Backyard

The March theme for the Artists' Trading Cards swap that I am part of is "My Backyard". My backyard is a heavily shaded slope that never gets enough water. The grass has more or less given up, but there are big patches of a volunteer vine that I think is Euonymus. This slope overlooks rental housing for college students. I like living in a college town, as having a large population of young people keeps things....well, young. But they party and make noise and everyone of them seems to have at least one car. Anyway, my backyard connects with backyards that have the rubble left over from a plastic chair crushing contest that some of the guys had last week. (Rules of the game seemed to be: see how much damage can be done to a plastic lawn chair by throwing a cement block down on it from the deck.) And the remnants of a beer bottle batting practice that was held after the chair contest....
But back to the ATCs. Reality would be difficult to show in fabric, I decided. My cards have my fantasy backyard. English style gardens full of flowers and wrought iron fences. Lots of rain to keep everything blooming. So lovely!

Comments

[tess1960]

And lovely they are. You must have some hilarious and OMG stories to tell about those college student neighbors of yours. I see it can be both frustrating and a source of amusement.
I loved the ATC's you made, a very nice "imaginative" garden you have.