EVERGREEN
A MOMENT IN AUGUST WHEN i LEAST EXPECT IT. THE AFTERNOON SHADOWS CHANGING. MY CITY GARDEN GETTING LESS SUN, EACH YELLOW STREAM THAT REACHES MY WALLED CITY GARDEN IS A GIFT AND THE GIFTS ARE FEW THESE DAYS. SOON THE GARDEN WILL BE PLUNDERED INTO SHADE AND COME NOVEMBER i WILL BE TAKING THE PLANTS THAT I SUMMERED OUTSIDE BACK IN FOR THE WINTER.
(i WOULD GET THIS SAME FEELING EVEN WHEN I LIVED IN ARIZONA ALTHOUGH THERE IT WOULD COME IN NOVEMBER- MAYBE IT’S A GARDENERS THING BUT I THINK WE ALL FEEL IT)
EVEN HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO WHERE IT RARELY FREEZES THE LACK OF SUN AND CONSTANT TEMPS IN THE 50’S DRAIN SOME PLANTS, WHILE OTHERS THRIVE. THE ABUTILON (FLOWERING MAPLE) ARE A MAINSTAY IN MY GARDEN. i KEEP THEM TRIMMED NARROW AND VERY TALL. EVERYTHING VERTICAL HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO -EVEN THE TREES.
I’D LIKE TO HAVE MORE EVERGREENS AND i AM THINKING NEXT SEASON I’LL FIND A COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE AND AN ATLAS BLUE CEDAR. SILVER BLUE AND GREEN i LIKE THAT.
i WROTE THE LYRICS TO EVERGREEN THINKING OF TREES AND REAL LOVE HEART TO HEART SOUL TO SOUL.
HARD NOT TO FEEL A PING OF EMPATHY FOR ALL THE TREES THAT HAVE BURNED IN THIS YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE. SEASONS WILL CHANGE. RAIN WILL COME. TREES WILL GROW BACK BUT THEY WILL NOT FORGET WHAT HAPPENED WOULD YOU?
THE TUNE BECAME JAZZY AND UPLIFTING WITH THE PRODUCTION OF IQ.33 AND MAVERICK DEL CARTER WHO HAS THE GOLDEN TOUCH SO HE DOES NOT NEED ANY PROMO FROM ME -JUST GLAD TO BE IN THE MIX.
i TOSSED UP THE SOUNDCLOUD VERSION THIS WILL BECOME PART OF A LARGER ALBUM WITH mAV AND iq.33 THIS WINTER. ENJOY. N.V.