Here there be Dragons

Can you see it? The bush in the back used to be topiary carved in the likeness of a dragon with an open jaw, but the man who lives here is very old and can no longer reach the front of it with the clippers. He can only indicate its sinuous lower body. You reach for what you can - The American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder memorably said that making art should be done as if one were a caterpillar on the end of a blade of grass, feeling in the air.