Category: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]