The Redbud Trees, part 2 With the redbuds nearly in bloom, the bees knew it was time to plan a feast. Two honeybees volunteered to go on a scouting expedition, and they returned that evening to report that Possum was, indeed, correct. The venerable trees...
The Redbud Trees The early bees were out and about — dozens upon dozens of them — and they were hungry. First, they feasted on winter-rose nectar. Then they began to spread out among the spring beauties and the wood poppies and the fairy wings and...
The Bench, part 3 The day after Old Possum and Crow (and Mouse) discovered the new bench in the woods, they spread the word throughout the garden and the woods. By the end of the second day, Squirrel, his aunt and uncle, and his cousins had carried...
The Bench, part 2 Any humans walking in the woods that evening might have wondered at the crow and the possum, sitting side-by-side on the bench under the crabapple trees. As dusk settled around the two friends, they alternated between companionable...
The Bench On his evening walk, Old Possum noticed that the crabapple trees near the entrance to the woods were — quite suddenly — gloriously full of pink-and-white blossoms. And he noted, with surprise, that a bench had mysteriously appeared under the...
