Michelle Robin La

Butterfly at the garden store.

When my husband was in middle school, he tried to get the neighborhood boys to help him catch toads to make toad soup. The other kids were scared to touch toads because they thought they would get warts. I heard that myth growing up, too. But in Vietnamese the word for warts even has toad in it . . . . Read “Toad Bumps”

Red sun from the fire this morning. (at Santa Barbara, California)

#succulents #plantart

California poppies at Goleta Beach.

Succulents in bloom.

Olive tree flowers falling on a jade plant.

Thanks to my son's comment one day, I have this #cnftweet published in Issue 61 of Creative Nonfiction: Learning from Nature.

My poem "Smoking a Pot of Gold" was a finalist in Asian Cha's Addiction Poetry Contest. You can read it here.

Looking through the flower kaleidoscope.

Flower kaleidoscope at the Minnesota State Fair.

Down the music box stairs.