Just one more time to relish the colors of winter displayed by this holly bush — before the flocking spring birds ravage them all, and flowering spring bulbs take over.
My new novel The Storks came Back (for readers age 8-12) is now ‘looking’ for a publisher. The children described in my novel would have been familiar with street scenes like these, and with the tinkered-together appearance and pungent smoky exhaust of cars running on gas generated by wood burners mounted on the back of motorized vehicles.