Desiree has been stealing flowers from my yard. Well, not precisely stealing. The flowers eventually reappear in a new location.
Perhaps a little history is in
order before I go on.
For the entire thirty-one years
I have been living at my house, I have planted flowers and broadcast the seeds
of native and Mitch-yard-tolerant whatnots all around my house. This spring, ss soon as weather permitted, Desiree
tried her hand at planting flowers around the place.
She also took to stealing
flowers from where I had them growing and replanting them where she prefers to
see them.
That’s a pretty weird thing to
do. Right?
At first, I thought I might
like to get slightly miffed about that.
But I quickly realized that’s something I have done. At times, I transferred what I called “prairie
plugs” into my yard from the wilds around me.
The plugs were essentially shovel-sized chunks of earth with flowers, cactus,
or grass I pried from the ground in the wilds around me so I could replant them
close to my house.
When I put all this together, I
realized Desiree is my kind of weird.
A Sample of Desiree’s Work
—Mitchell Hegman
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