Beverly Adams
No. 35 in the Cobblestone Circle Series
But that hasn’t slowed Beverly down much. She has already packed away the winter clothes and finished her intense annual house cleaning ~ she’s even got her windows done ~ inside and out! It was quite a sight for the neighbors to see her washing windows while wearing her husband’s hip waders. He will never notice that she borrowed them to avoid getting her own shoes covered in mud.
Above everything else, the thing that is really calling to her heart is her garden. Since she and Chester never had any children of their own, it brings them great joy to share their yard with the youngsters in the neighborhood ~ so they take great care to make it child-friendly.
The most popular area is the raspberry hedge. Many crimson stained faces have emerged from that part of the yard over the years. By early summer the pea trellises will see a lot of traffic as tiny fingers search among the green vines for those elusive sweet crisp treasures. A few weeks later those same little fingers will not be able to resist all the different shapes and colors of cherry tomatoes. And right before the onset of Fall, the sunflower houses will be covered in morning glory vines creating secret cottages, forts or excellent hiding places depending on the games being played that day.
But for today Beverly will have to be satisfied with working on her garden journal because the beds are still so wet that she dare not tread in them yet. Settling herself on the stoop of her potting shed, she smiles as she pages through the well-loved and weather worn book where she sketches her plans each year ~ and then adds photographs as those plans become reality. Just as she finds her pencil to begin drawing up plans for this year a big fat raindrop lands right in the middle of the page! But before she retreats into the house, she lightly steps into the yard just far enough to nip a few daffodils for the kitchen windowsill.
~ SOLD ~
April 2008
