Meredith Siemsen

A honeybee getting a good buzz from the nectar on a Tithonia flower (photo by Philip Brown, Unsplash.com) One of last year’s gardening experiments was such a miraculous success … that now I’m a little bit obsessed. It was an impulse buy at my local farm supply store. I’d gone in for a garden hose, and my wandering eye—the one that is always trying to buy happiness—landed on some cheery-looking seed packets next to the register.

A whimsical DAB Day submission by Mary C.

A child’s drawing found on DABday.com In 1943, smack dab in the middle of World War II, seven-year-old Dorie Cooper accompanied her mother on a trip to a UK hospital recovery ward to visit her distraught uncle, whose leg had been lost in a land mine explosion. To cheer him up, she made a simple request. “Draw a bird for me, please.” Her uncle obliged.