It was a delight to receive an email from graphic design artist and photographer Cindy Dyer earlier this year. I had “liked” a post on her beautiful blog and she had visited mine in response. She liked enough of what she saw to invite me to include my essay, Seeds, in the Spring 2013 issue of her digital magazine, Celebrate Home. The issue is on newsstands now, so to speak, free to download and print issues can be purchased. Seeds can be found on page 95 but I encourage to check out all of the writing, imagery, and recipes to found in this lovely publication. And you can check out Cindy’s blogs via the following links: http://www.cindydyer.wordpress.com/ and http://www.gardenmuse.wordpress.com/
By the way, when I wrote this essay, my brother still lived in the house. He now rents it to an older lady who likes to grow tomato plants in all available space including along the front porch. And the elderly lady who appears near the end of the essay is still alive. I visited her during a trip back to Virginia. She was very welcoming from her front porch and even took us inside to sit for a bit where her children had to remind her at some point, “Mama, you are 99 not 89.” Her response was “Is that right?” And so it goes. 
