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Category: Stay-at-Home Stories

Fairies in my Garden
Stay-at-Home Stories

Fairies in my Garden

I think I am probably dealing better with quarantine than most people. I am very happy staying at home most days. Grocery shopping is not my favorite thing to do on a good day so the less of that the better. What I do love […]

July 17, 2020
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Garden Club Connection
Cities and Towns~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Flowers~Stay-at-Home Stories~Story Garden

Garden Club Connection

I’m a member of my seaside small town Garden Club. During this stressful time, we have established a cell phone number chain. Each day we post a flower whether its in our own garden or neighbor’s. In the fall we planted hundreds of daffodils throughout […]

April 2, 2020
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Our Garden Through Six-Year-Old Eyes
Animals and Insects~Childhood~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Stay-at-Home Stories~Story Garden

Our Garden Through Six-Year-Old Eyes

Our garden through our six-year-old daughter’s eyes. Her story is: “These flowers caught my mind because I love pink. Baby Fluffy loves the flowers and I love seeing the flowers in my garden too!!!” Baby Fluffy is an orphan baby bird we rescued from the […]

June 13, 2019
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Of bugs and brothers
Animals and Insects~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Stay-at-Home Stories~Story Garden

Of bugs and brothers

Is this a garden story? My brother ate a bug from the garden, then he went to the hill in the backyard and tried to fly.   My mother laughed her head off. Author: Susan Medalie Featured Image Photo Credit: CC0 Public Domain. See more […]

January 14, 2019
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California in my (Western bleeding) Heart
Flowers~Stay-at-Home Stories

California in my (Western bleeding) Heart

To live in Sweden in May is to experience a veritable explosion of blooms: with nearly 20 hours of sunlight, each day something new is blooming while something else fades away. Yesterday this bright pink plant caught my attention because it so resembled the Western […]

May 27, 2018
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Flowers
Childhood~Flowers~Stay-at-Home Stories

Flowers

What struck you about this plant? — This plant captured my attention because it’s yellow and I like yellow. Where did you find this plant? — This plant was growing in my Nonna’s garden.Does the plant remind you of something or someone? — This plant […]

May 27, 2018
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Small Story- Big Life: The Giant Sequoia
Stay-at-Home Stories~Trees, Forests, and Woods

Small Story- Big Life: The Giant Sequoia

Sliced lives; inconspicuous and dormant. Human events read out loud from timelines imprinted across dead tissues. As the skin of others gathers in these crevasses of plant history; quiet trees become silent. Until the conservator cleans off the years and awakens the giant within.   […]

May 7, 2018
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Pitcher plant mania
Stay-at-Home Stories

Pitcher plant mania

The shape and the colors are beautiful. And eerie, somehow. Or is that only because I know that they capture and eat insects! I saw this plant in the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. I would love to see one in real life.It […]

April 20, 2018
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  • Juniper herbarium specimen collected 1929 by Susan Delano McKelveyLeah, My Juniper Bonsai Tree
    From the nursery I returned with what one day I would […]
  • Sweet Pea Herbarium Specimen (1917)Sweet Peas
    Sweet Peas by Donna Williams I am struggling to paint […]
  • Musing from Under a Moss Leaf
    Whenever I’m in the forest I like to imagine that I’m […]
  • Colocasia esculenta (L.) herbarium imageMy Ancient Older Brother- Kalo
    “Kalo is our oldest brother. An ancient ancestor.” I […]
  • Me and My Tomato Plant
    I was an avid gardener as a kid. I helped out at the […]
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