They told me that their dad, Lou, had created a garden in the back yard of the first house they lived in in Fort Wayne. The garden was a vegetable garden consisting of two rectangular beds with one side of each shaped like a crescent. A smaller round bed in front of those contained some beautiful tall, red Canna Lily plants.
As it happened, we drove past the house and noticed that it appeared to be empty, so Mary and Cindy went to peer into the windows and explore the back yard.
They found that the shape of the garden Lou had laid out so many years ago was still visible, although it was now filled with shrubs and was very over grown and unkempt, and Cindy's fingers fairly itched for her pruning shears.
It was obvious that it would take even a passionate gardener a long time to get it back into good shape, but it's also clear that, no matter how many years have passed, once you create a garden, the potential for it is always there.
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