Does the Garden of Eden look like this?

A steady flowing river, whispering reeds and listening fish;  a flowering meadow,  a gentle mountain breeze, green to delight the eye, colorful mosaic of insects. It certainly felt like the Garden of Eden.

If not, what does the Garden of Eden look like?

Perhaps my twitter poem earlier in the Spring caught something of this quality, though the Cornmill Meadows are in the outskirts of London while the landscape in this picture is in the valley of the river Ammer near Ettal and Oberammergau.

At the Cornmill Meadows

dragonflies rest on nettles

comfrey, buttercups

and the smooth stones

of the shallow stream.

(Published in Escarp, a “review of super-brief literature”)

Photo Credit: Attentive Eye