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Nature’s Boon (10) : Flowers are blooming at an incredible place across the city and sometimes barren patches of grass can be overrun with flowers overnight. There have been heavy showers and a high pollen count but there doesn’t appear to be any other explanation. It is not uncommon to find trees with nearly double the leaves they usually have, with vines twisting up houses, flowers covering the front yard, or local fruits to have doubled in size. This isn't the first time Destiny City has seen such oddities, and there doesn’t seem to be any negative effects to this; scientists are questioning climate change. Or is it radiation??
Rhona had long since given up trying to tame the flora around The Farmer's Daughter and was instead embracing the overgrown wilderness that seemed to have overrun her little market over the last week. Instead of trying to mow the grasses back, she simply started bundling patches together with festive ribbons, cutting only pathways and keeping them down with paver stones so that she didn't kill her back every other day trying to keep the lawn at bay. She even dragged pots, overgrown with seasonal annual flowers, over towards the punches, breaking up the monotony of green with their riots of colors.
The paths she carved through her new jungle led from the road to the front door, obviously, but also around the back to the gardens, where she had paved a whole patio and bordered it long rectangular planters which were all equally overgrown with plant life. She'd market it as an enchanted garden, and tomorrow she'd set up the metal pergola she'd bought and string it with the LED light bulbs she had somewhere in storage, along with the iron patio furniture that she'd bought with the idea of making just such a thing... eventually. And if this all died out over the fall and didn't come back next spring well.. she had the pavers down for the patio already, so all she had to do was actually do the leveling to install them correctly and permanently. She was basically halfway there.
Halfway there and sweaty and grimy and covered in dirt. And achey. So achey. Rhona felt like she'd run a marathon again, when she hadn't ever been outside of the boundaries of her own property.
This afternoon, however, Rhona had something else planned. Something decidedly less strenuous but no less important.
Rhona was going flower picking.
For her wife.
She was going into the forest to gather all of the most beautiful flowers she could find, all of which would pale against the woman of her dreams, the love of her life, so that she could fill their home with them while Lavender worked. With any luck, Rhona's plans would go undetected until Lav came home and was absolutely inundated with the blooms. Of course she'd make arrangements with the red roses and lavender bushes which had gotten absolutely out of control this week, but that was something she always did. Almost every week during growing and blooming season she pepper vases with such arrangements through their home. Adding wildflowers, however, was a new addition that she hoped would make her wife swoon.
Her wife.
Even years later, Rhona still wanted to giggle and dance when she thought about it. She still wanted to swing Lavender around in her arms and thank her over and over for choosing Rhona. That day and every day since.
God she was a sap.
A sap who was getting distracted from her highly important task.
She needed to go into the woods so that she could make said flower arrangements and get said wife to swoon. Right into Rhona's arms. Hopefully. If Rhona got her way.
Under the shade of the forest, Rhona instantly felt her skin cooling down. No longer under the unrelenting summer sun, she nearly shivered. She honestly hadn't realized how hot she'd gotten until that moment, and she'd be shocked if she didn't end up with a burn at the end of the day. Above her the formerly beaming sunlight dappled to something much gentler through the leaf cover, suddenly so much more lush, just like the ground cover all around the city.
