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My Garden Visits, A Harvest of Reflections and Ol' Lady Grizelda

WELCOME! My Garden Visits and A Harvest of Reflections are Random House/Ballantine books.

  • Please see what readers are saying about My Garden Visits;

    • "This heartfelt journey takes the reader to a place deep in the soul where the garden is always blooming, and a mother's love is never far.
    • To plant a garden is to believe in miracles...to read My Garden Visits is to experience them first hand. A beautiful book with exquisite drawings...I would not hesitate to recommend it."amazon.com review


        Please sign the Guestbook and if you have read My Garden Visits, please visit the amazon.com site and add your impressions and comments. It is Mr. Matott's hope that these books will bring peace, solace, humor and enjoyment to you. My Garden Visits is richly illustrated with water color botanicals by a very talented artist, Victoria Kwasinski.

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            Mr. Matott would be happy to autograph and/or personalize books if you would like to order them from my local Barnes & Noble at 303-706-9660. They will arrange (please ask for manager). If not available in your local library or book store, please ask them to order it, ISBN 0-345-41251-6   
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          MY GARDEN VISITS HAS BEEN FEATURED ON THE LEEZA SHOW, USA TODAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, WOMAN'S DAY AND NUMEROUS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES. HERE ARE A FEW QUOTES FROM READERS ETC....

           
            "This work is a beautiful gift to anyone who has lost a loved one. I was touched with the promise and hope in the story." Leeza Gibbons, THE LEEZA SHOW
          • "Full of charm and grace." Publishers Weekly Magazine
          • "Imagine Malachi as Mr. Rogers, trowel in hand, and you get a sense for Matott's Handbook of Revelation and Horticulture... Can Oprah Winfrey possibly resist this stuff? Stay tuned." DESERET NEWS
          • "My Garden Visits is a mix of homespun wisdom and childhood memories, all built around his mother's visits to his garden, during which she offered gentle guidance and reassurance." ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
          • "My Garden Visits is a visual jewel of a book that seems poised for greatness... a desperately needed reminder to a spiritually-starved society that love is enduring and eternal." BUY COLORADO MAGAZINE
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          • "In today's troubled world, it is truly refreshing to pick up My Garden Visits..." EXCLUSIVELY LITTLETON MAGAZINE
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          • "The book was very comforting and is a gentle reminder to me of what is truly important in life. It is a book that can and should be read over and over again. The mom we all wished we had is in every page reminding us of how much we are loved and how much we can make a difference if we just take the time to listen. I will keep this book with me and cherish it no matter where I am." amazon.com review
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          • "A unique book, beautiful in execution and rich in feeling. This is a journey through childhood's mysteries, familial love and a unique mother-son bonding that parts the veil between life and death allowing communication and consolation to enrich us all." Manager, Boulder Bookstore
          • "Make time in your busy schedule to read this book... and take time to stop and smell the roses!" DENVER POST
          • "I have never read any other book that is so beautiful and yet so simple at the same time." Excerpt from a letter from a Canadian reader
          • "I will read it over and over again..." Missouri reader
          •   "This book will only apply to a reader if they are a mother or have had one!" Buyer at the Tattered Cover Bookstore
          • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY September 7, 1998 says this about Matott's new book; A HARVEST OF REFLECTIONS: Wisdom for the Soul Through the Seasons: Beginning at the end of one growing season and ending at the beginning of another, Coloradan Matott (My Garden Visits) ruminates in this collection of "vignettes" on topics within and without the garden, deftly weaving the two together, each a metaphor for the other, offering lessons in both directions. From a youthful kiss in a hayloft, through his mother's death, his children's wonder and his mother-in-law's green thumb, Matott crystallizes his life's moments and places them, somehow, in the context of the garden. With poems from a small collection by his late uncle, brief examinations (and lovely illustrations by Deborah Chabrian) of such specimens as the red-twigged dogwood, angel's trumpet, rose, dandelion and "yesterday, today and tomorrow," Matott moves through the gardener's off-season of pumpkins and apples, snowflakes and Christmas trees, baby birds and hyacinths. Lives and relationships move through season of their own, and the author's own thoughts mature and ripen, from a gardening father's embarrassment at having to buy pumpkins to make jack-o-lanterns for his young sons, to a son heeding his deceased mother's message to help his elderly father move through and beyond grief. Matott delivers a collection of warm thoughts for contemplation in the long, cold nights between gardening seasons.