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Gretchen Staebler
I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer. Check out my website (and my memoir) at www.gretchenstaebler.com.
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Writing Down the Story 
I really love the composition of this photo. The softness, the color, the various phases of its short bloom 💚
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It’s crazy cool. I’m okay with this as invasive.
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Every year our garden has produced a forest of borage, started years ago by a few small seeds. Not this year though. Perhaps they drown. They are a wonderful bee magnet, and they make deviled eggs with paprika look awful pretty.
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I had a ton of bachelor buttons for a couple three years, and California poppies, then . . . none.
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the world is changing… ?
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I had no idea that’s what borage looks like! I think I sowed some seed once, but nothing came up. We saw Carolina horse nettle on a walk Sunday, which has that same kind of flower, like nightshade, but apparently not in the nightshade family.
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This was in a seed mix, but there was so much rocket flower, which came up first, there was no room for much else. There are two of these and one bachelor button. There was supposed to be much more. I should have thinned, but didn’t know what to pull.
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