...to Forever blooming: Amazing daffodil garden is closed, but her serigraphs are alive in a new book

I loved this post about a woman and her daffodil garden. Gene Bauer, from San Bernadino, California, has planted millions of daffodil bulbs behind her house, and every year until this last year, she allowed people to come look at her garden. As she has gotten older though, she hasn't been able to keep up her daffodils, and as a result has closed the garden forever. As part of her love for botany though, she has created a series of serigraphs, which have recently been published along with her poetic accompanying thoughts in a book.

What I liked about the story though, was the fact that a woman would plant 20,000 bulbs a year, and then go out and write what some have referred to as love-letter like essays about a plant, and make a serigraph to go with it. Bauer would create a sort of pamphlet from the two, and then mail them to her botany-club members. The book has been compiled from these pamphlets which she sent out. It's people like that who make me wish I was more creative and maybe a little bit more ambitious.

However, I feel like there are things which we will each do to leave a legacy behind us. I hope one day, my kids or my grandkids look over my writing (school papers, journals, freewriting, whatever), and feel that I left something of myself with them. If I could be more visually artistic, I would love to leave a graphic and bold picture for them to look at, as Ms. Bauer has.