My new puzzle has a different relationship with the garden, in terms of its subject matter and emotional reaction. Gone is the puffing train, replaced by an imaginative illustration of birds in a citrus grove, created by the artist Geninne D. Zlatkis. The birds are an invented species, robin-like but exotic in their azure-blue, speckled plumage and the black filigree of their wing-feathers. You sit in the midst of seven plump oranges, more than a dozen orange blossoms in bloom or bud, four honey bees and a tracery of stems and leaves. Titled “Naranjas”, which means “oranges” in Spanish, it has a Latin feel to it; Zlatkis studied architecture in Chile and graphics in Mexico.
