water Archives - Darcy Wiley

Praise for Rain (and what a drought will show you)

by Darcy Wiley | Jul 25, 2012 | Fresh-Cut Flowers, Pocket Change

Crumbly leaf, rough bark, helicopter seed. We filled our bag with bits of nature. All our friends around us did the same, racing to check off finds on the list. Farah staggered down stair-stepped roots to the creek, looking for one last thing, a shell. There, a...

West Palm Runaway {Gift from the Sea 2: Channelled Whelk}

by Darcy Wiley | Jun 18, 2012 | Buttons & Thread, Gift from the Sea ~ Summer Book Club 2012, Sweet Tea

In the year that I turned two, I bid farewell to both of my grandmothers. Elsie flew away to Heaven. And Mamie bought a one-way bus ticket to West Palm Beach. If you would have asked me as a toddler what made her pack her bags for the Sunshine State, I would have said...