The one thing that should bring me out of the period of silence on this blog is my discovery today that Lady Bird Johnson passed away 2 weeks ago. I wondered if I would get the chance to meet her some day (on earth at least); she was and is an inspiration to the dream garden I see when I close my eyes. In this garden, there are beautiful flowers, elegant and regal but with a delicate and wild balance that arrange themselves in sometimes indiscernible patterns. My first visit to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center came at a...…