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I like to do a lot of things and at this stage of the game I rarely do anything I do not like to do. I have earned that right and privilege because for almost 74 years on this planet there have been many things I had to do that I did not particularly like to do.
One of the many things I like to do is watch movies. Good movies. I was raised up on movies since as long as I can remember. Saturday afternoon at the movies cost 12 cents and we sure got our money's worth.
Nowadays there are not too many movies that appeal to me, nor do the movie houses themselves appeal to me with their Dolby surround sound that almost deafens me. Plus the prices are too high to say nothing of most of the movies are inane. I like dialog, thinking, mystery, and I especially like movies that have great scenery so when this organic gardener discovered an old BBC series called Rosemary and Thyme on Netflix I said this was for me.
Rosemary and Thyme sounded like herbs, sounded like gardeners and they were just that. Two gal gardeners who wind up being amateur detectives in the hit British TV series star Pam Ferris (I loved her in the Darling Buds of May) as former cop Laura Thyme, who loves tooling around in her garden. Plant biologist Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal) has just lost her university teaching post and seems rudderless. When a suspicious death brings them together, they discover their sleuthing skills, a penchant for gardening and a blossoming friendship. Solving mysteries and raising petunias … how British can you get?
However, the best part is they get to do their sleuthing and gardening jobs at the most incredible gardens I have ever seen. Every episode is another glorious setting with houses and gardens and gardening information all in wonderful color as these two gals solve the crimes that all relate to the gardens they are working in and sometimes very humorously!
I have been to England and have seen some great gardens including Kew Gardens, but the gardens in this series are breathtaking.
Now I plan my day and week so my gardening, writing, painting and housecleaning chores, plus whatever else fills my calendar, around Rosemary and Thyme for when the mail comes in from Netflix bringing us another one of these films, Carl and I shut down our lives and get out the popcorn and enjoy not only the story and acting, but the beautiful tour of these English gardens and manors and I know I will miss them when I have finished viewing all of the episodes.
“Tread the Earth Lightly” and in the meantime… May your day be filled with…Peace, Light and Love,
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Author Bio Box: Arlene Wright Correll
 For more gardening or cooking information click http://www.learn-america.com/
To see Arlene’s Gardens and to read her gardening diaries and to take a walk through her pictorial garden or click on Arlene’s Books where you can download or buy her gardening & cook books, including her new book, “The ABC’s of Wine and Beer Making”. Many of her articles written for Greenthumbarticles have paintings she has created of the subject and they can be seen at her “How to Do It” site. Remember to check out her artwork, especially of her fruits and vegetables. Many of her paintings are sold internationally and many of her works of art have been reproduced on note cards, post cards and other functional items and you can get Giclee prints of her artwork starting as low as $11.89 Arlene says, “All my royalties from the sale of my books, art, etc. go to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and I thank you for visiting my sites.”
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