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"
Wednesday, August 3
Plant Cuttings and Pretty Rocks
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"
Comfort
Friday, July 22
Prairie Coneflower
I bought this plant 3 years ago at the Friends of Mounds State Park Native Plant Sale. Needing plants for my back yard habitat, I figured it was just the thing, but I forgot where I planted it, and Scout dog loves to pull up plant markers... Hind site, last year I pulled it up cause at 3' tall nothing happened and it looked like a weed. This year, out of curiosity I let the "weed" grow to see how it would bloom. At 6 to 7' tall and 5' across, this is what she did ! Go Girl ! Plant Natives ! What Natives (volunteers) have you planted or have gifted you?
Thursday, July 21
SUMMER SIZZLES
Monday, February 14
Snow Gives Way
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