... this heinous thing was, it ate most of the leaves, and left little bald green bean tree-looking things where once lush green plants used to be.  (I ... ;pole beans’.)   I yanked them out and have laid all my hopes on the second bean crop – which is actually now the first, seeing as how the bean trees had to be destroyed.   Whoever said I was good at this gardening thing, well, they were ...

... will be completely satisfied when the last page is turned.  I’ve been wanting to read something-Kingsolver for awhile, and when a friend said, “You should read ‘The Bean Trees’. The main character reminds me of you.”, I couldn’t resist.  It wasn’t the vain idea of seeing myself in fiction that lured me ...

Dan was assigned this as summer reading for AP English next year. He read it in one day, before school even let out. "Must be good," I thought, and gave it a try. Wow, I read it in two days. Couldn't put it down. It is one of those books that instantly takes you into another time and place and other peoples' lives. Here's the Publisher's Weekly description of the book, ...

... I lived in LA I dreamt of stealthily climbing the magnolia trees at night when no one was watching, cutting branches to display in my ... petals. My son calls it a cloud tree. Did you know “cloud trees” evolved before bees appeared and that specimens have been found ... have watched ferns unfurl, roses bud and beans sprout…for every bean we planted, a “magic” bean went in ...

Photo By John Hoff Catalpa trees have spectacular, almost orchid-like flowers in the spring. They have long, inedible, bean-like pods when make them quite a ... the culture of the Native Americans? When there is some kind of odd pattern of trees, I always want to know the how and the why. For example, I'm still trying to figure out why Dinkytown near the U of M has so many gingko trees. I wrote ...

I thought the Coffee Bean guy was really nice, helping me with a username and all. And I see Sarah here! Nice, though odd, coz we’re ... and me lah… clever clever, pergi Coffee Bean.  Now that I’m back in Malaysia for a whole week, it does feel quite nice to ... in Malaysia – hello high ceilings and tall green trees (but terrible haze). Goodbye cottage-like houses and cute rose ...