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[Bunjov AT aol.com]

> Sheesh, now I won't have any fun stuff from the garden this year  <g>
 
Yeah, you will, if I have any say-so.
 
I, too, have a Rubbermaid container full of envelopes...but not all seeds  
for human consumption / fodder.
 
I pick up seeds, heads, pods wherever I happen to be, and label them with  
date and place.
 
'Tis true that plastic bags are a no-no. Mold rules.
 
Then again, when I go through the collection, I come across things like  
"Unknown. Amtrack station - Santa Clarita - November 1998".
 
It's not just seeds'n'stuff that are in that container. Memories, too. 
 
I collected those Amtrack seeds just before dawn, as I was dropping off a  
friend to see his mother (now 106 - and thriving!). When the train pulled 
away,  
I sat down on the bench outside the otherwise empty station, and was joined  
by a young employee who - for reasons unknown - began to recount her 
experience  a few hours earlier - in the dead of night - when a lone coyote 
had 
ventured  down onto the platform, and the two of them, only yards apart, 
exchanged a 
lot  of information. He stood up to go. She stood up to go. 
 
I will never see that young lady again, and that's OK. I hope she remembers  
me, too. I haven't been back, but I would imagine that the pre-dawn hillside 
is  now completely covered over by asphalt and concrete. 
 
I looked back over my shoulder after we made our farewells, and she was  
looking back, too. Just as the eerie, unnerving cry of a coyote sounded  from 
the 
top of the hill.
 
Just seeds? No.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 



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