I love hollyhocks!
They remind me of Marblehead,
Massachusetts, where they even grow
out of the cracks in the sidewalks.
I had given my parents a print
of my painting of hollyhocks.
It's cheering to see it on this gray
rainy day in Connecticut.
I will be at
my parents' house another week and
maybe by the time I return home to
Maine we will have more flowers
blooming besides the crocuses.
