Volume XII, Issue XVIIIc
Photos by Bob Kirchman
A Floral Legacy Continues
Photos by Bob Kirchman
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime." – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The Springhill Hollyhocks are a legacy of Kristina Elaine Greer's Great Great Grandmother, who first planted them in her yard. [7.] Even though her house has long since been replaced by a gas station, the hollyhocks emerge every Spring and in Summer they bless the community near Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton, Virginia with brilliant colored flowers! Here they emerge afresh in the Spring of 2017.