Hey! You Got Eyeballs In There?<\/p>\n
By Kate Chamberlin<\/p>\n
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As Grace grows up, some of her stories are happy, some trying, some enlightening, and a few themes are sad, but, they\u2019re all the warp and woof of what goes into the tapestry of life we call Family. The daily living skills and techniques demonstrated by the fictional characters in these stories are valid, tried and true.<\/p>\n
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#43. Charles and David<\/p>\n
<\/a>#45. Green Trillium In May<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>#46.\u00a0 Search For Boy And Dog<\/p>\n <\/a>#47.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Hollow Tree<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n #48. So many Flowers<\/p>\n \u201cWell, at least you didn\u2019t sprain anything this time,\u201d Grandma said. \u201cWhile we\u2019re here, let\u2019s see if there are any spring flowers left and find some of the summer wildflowers.\u201d<\/p>\n They found that the trillium were all gone, but the Blue Coshes had set clusters of little, blue berries.<\/p>\n \u201cSarah, look at these,\u201d Liam said. \u201cWeird!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGrandma,\u201d Sarah, said,\u201d It has small, whitish, speckled berry clusters on really tall leafy stems. What are they?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat sounds like the False Solomon\u2019s Seal,\u201d Grandma said. \u201cThe little berries will turn red in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n As they passed out of the wood\u2019s canopy, the cicada reclaimed their territory with a loud, raspy rattling racket. The sunlight blazed upon the meadow full of Daisies, Black-eyed Susan, Mouse-eyed Hogweed, Joe-Pye Weed, Milk Weed, and feathery grasses making a beautiful tapestry of color that shimmered as a gentle wind sent them all into motion.<\/p>\n \u201cGrandma, can I dig up and take some of the wildflowers home for my souvenir this time?\u201d Liam asked the next day.<\/p>\n \u201cThe drumlin woods was carved out by the glacier and the bog has unique acid properties that these wildflowers thrive on. If you took them home, they would probably die,\u201d Grandma said. \u201cHow about using Granddad\u2019s digital camera to shoot some photos to take home?\u201d<\/p>\n For Sarah\u2019s souvenir, she chose one of the pitchers from Grandma\u2019s collection. It was a short, squat pot with a raised picture of a Pitcher Plant on one side.<\/p>\n Soon they were both asleep in the backseat of the car. And, yes, Liam\u2019s pile of wildflower photographs scattered onto the car floor, just like the wild flowers on the floor of the Drumlin Woods.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n kathryngc1@verison.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey! You Got Eyeballs In There? By Kate Chamberlin As Grace grows up, some of her stories are happy, some trying, some enlightening, and a few themes are sad, but, they\u2019re all the warp and woof of what goes into the tapestry of life we call Family. The daily living skills and techniques demonstrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}