Posts by Geraldine Birch
Lahaina’s Banyan Tree
Note: I wrote this essay in 2020, many years after visiting it in 1980. It has always stayed in my memory of Lahaina. Because of the terrible tragedy that Lahaina recently suffered with a devastating fire, this beautiful monarch is one of the many victims. Now tree surgeons from around the Hawaiian Islands are trying…
Read MoreThe Bag of Charcoal
More than fifty years ago, I had an unexpected meeting…
Read MoreAh, California
Recently, I returned to my home state because I missed the Pacific Ocean. Oh, yes, I do love northern Arizona with its red rocks and its prickly pear cactus and mesquites, but California was calling. And this is what I inhaled… Greenery everywhere, filling my senses Camellias blooming Azaleas flaunting Bird of Paradise displaying Coral…
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