Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Creatures in the Garden

I spent the morning at Prince, on the playground and in the garden.  I tied shoes.  I pulled weeds.  I counted 3-2-1 and never got to GO for races across the concrete.  I pulled carrots that demonstrated their root vegetable-ness by sprouting roots from the carrot itself.  

Strangely, I encountered no wildlife in the garden itself.  I had to step out onto the grassy area to be confronted with the first creatures.  
To me, they looked like small berries.... like the small berries on the Solanum americanum I'd pulled out five minutes before.... a plant that self-seeded in Grandma's Garden.... a plant whose little berries give little kids tummy aches if ingested and therefore has no place in a school garden.  

But the girls insisted they were little lady bugs and in no danger of being eaten.  They spent some time showing me the wings and the dots and by the time they were finished I was convinced.

There was a crowd of kids waiting for my attention.  I have a lizard, a baby lizard said the person with these impossibly tiny hands.  
  
And, in fact, there was a tiny lizard at the top of the heart in her hand.
It was fascinating to all of us.

4 comments:

  1. How fun to spend time with all those two-legged creatures.

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    1. It is for them that I put up with the 4 legged ones! Otherwise, I'd keep a respectful distance.
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  2. How wonderful. I've been thinking of your d-i-l and grandpig this week during Dreamforce. Haven't seen any postings of LiLu on Instragram or in the Chronicle, but I keep looking. I just know she is out and about.

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    1. Lilou was definitely there! I'll post a picture for you. Spoiler: She looks Very Classy!
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