Still no rain. Throughout the garden, fern fronds and begonia stems and hellebore leaves wilted and drooped (although it was now officially fall, so no one was entirely sure whether the drooping and wilting were due to the weather or the time of year). 

Following Rabbit’s example, everyone started setting bowls, teacups, saucers, even plates outside their doors, around the trunks of the trees that housed their nests, or at the base of the stone wall, and filling them each morning with water for the bees, the crickets, the spiders, and the last of the summer bugs.

(September 2023)

Story © Jennifer Singleton / Read+Purr

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