Recipe for a Prairie Flower Patch

Take:

* One outside terrace directly across from Isabel's room

* One sunny afternoon with a sharp prairie breeze

* One Head Gardener -- that would be Isabel observing and directing from her wheelchair

*  two family members and one loyal friend equipped with trowels (the worker bees)

* one raised flower bed 2 feet x 12 feet

* geraniums - 3 fire engine red and 2 salmon pink

* wave petunias - two gala purple and 1 party pink

* marigolds - 12 "little devils"

* pansies - 6 citrus and 6 majestic blue giant

* seeds - California poppy and pink lavatera seed from Isabel's Abernethy garden

* one green watering can and one soaker hose (Whoops!  Sorry Mum! -- that was supposed to be a regular old hose)

Et Voilà!

What do we have?

The promise of a lovely flower patch to delight the senses all summer long....

And a report from Isabel the next day that the nurses had commented on the dirt in her ears following an afternoon of  supervising the gardening...

And now may the rains continue to come......