Re: TB: Children in the Garden

In a message dated 3/25/2006 8:57:50 AM Central Standard Time, 
Bzzscheile@aol.com writes:


>  Then I explain the rules to 
> the children.  I show them how to follow the stem to the bottom to pick 
> flowers.  I educate them about different plants and which they may pick and 
> which 
> they cannot. 

Your post brought a smile to my face. And, as I related it to your previous 
post the smile broke into a grin.

" Oh, but I know when they stalks present their 
treasures, all sense will depart and I will begin dabbing pollen madly and 
indiscriminately.  What I really need to do is keep notes on WHY I made the 
crosses I made."

You have discovered the essence of gardenin'. It finds the awe of the child 
that still exists in each of us reguardless of age.

Nothing has ever been quite so, so precious here as those tiny fingers of a 
child holding a bloom pinched of just below the flower, reachin' high as they 
can toward my eyes, standin' on tip toes, bouncin' up and down, hollerin' 
"Look!"

They ain't so much different from the rest of us...... just shorter and maybe 
a little more focused.

Laughin',
Bill Burleson

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