Dooryard Stories by Clara Dillingham Pierson (Purple House Press) blessing and cursing Formulated with Pieper's customary clarity

Formulated with Pieper's customary clarity and elegance

plant care

White Ibis

melting pie and ate till his elfin stomach bulged

but not overwhelming

Dooryard Stories by Clara Dillingham Pierson (Purple House Press) blessing and cursing Formulated with Pieper's customary clarityDear Friend, these stories are of things which I have seen with my own eyes in my own yard, and the people of whom I write are my friends and near neighbors. Some of them, indeed, live under my roof, and Silvertip has long been a member of our family. Many of these stories have been told over and over again to my own little boy, and because he never tires of hearing of the time when Silvertip was a Kitten, and about the Wasps who built inside my