red pepper garden fail!

I could have tried to describe with words the unbearable cuteness of the three tiny peppers that grew in my garden this summer, but the camera makes easy work of it. Next: Laura sews tiny clothes for the peppers and stages a pepper puppet show.

September 27, 2009 · 1 min · Laura J. Frantz

into every life

The succulents on our front steps look so beautiful after the rain.

June 14, 2009 · 1 min · Laura J. Frantz

seedlings

I just love these little guys. Several times a day I open the tray lid, lower my face down to them and breathe in their warm, brown breath. Soon they will each have proper names, and we will take turns reading poetry and singing to them.

April 7, 2009 · 1 min · Laura J. Frantz

for me

She walked out of the gray woods holding this pot. She found wild snow drops under a shaggy mat of brown. She freed them from leaf bones and dried tangles, then plopped them, dirt and all, into discarded plastic. Now the pot sits on our front steps and makes Mama happy.

March 12, 2009 · 1 min · Laura J. Frantz