LaGrange Garden of Flowers

The house makes sure you understand it was for the workers and inhabitants who carved the curved rafters and wall-papered the walls in flowers, for the women who planted the holly and Narcissus and wisteria that bloom wildly in the dooryard. The whole place is still white, green and red. The green tar paper, the exposed whitewash, the chipping red chimney and rust. The enormous abandoned holly bush in the front has glossy green leaves and red berries. The clumps of paperwhites along where the walkway was are bright green and their white blooms leave a musky scent through the woods, even on New Year's Day. Even inside the house, flowers still bloom: