Three generations of Women, Grandmother Goodwin, Myself, and daughter Leah. What traits have been shared? Gardening and growing-collecting natural things. Grandmamma started any cutting she wanted in rich dirt, under a fruit jar in dappled shade. By example she taught you don't have to have a lot of money to have an extensive plant collection- you just have to have good friends, share, go different places, and keep a knife in your purse. If you dont have a knife in your purse, you are not related. No matter how busy she was, she always took time to notice pretty things. She had a vast collection of pretty rocks from various fishing day trips, saved and arranged in her flower beds. I do too. Leah's boys collect pretty rocks, my sister does, neices , nephews, and cousins do too. The simple things, that do not clutter when we are gone, but enhance where we have been. Treasures of old home sites, echoes of a common sense of unusual, beautiful, just plain wierd- "that rock looks like a bird's egg, that one a "foot". They are in our cars and trucks first, till we clean them out and place them just so....The special ones move when we do, but we leave a trail, a non-polluting trail, but a trail none the less, to confound geologists? archeologists? No, "Pretty" is pretty much "pretty" to all. Take time for "pretty"
