That snap, when brick fits brick just so, making a lego castle or fox chasing rabbit, that's the way this family fits, the parents (builder and flower artist) and the children (nature lover and crafts maker) complementing and enjoying each other.
No better way to spend an afternoon than this: a Christmas-gift trip to Michael's, lunch at Moe's, and a stroll through The North Carolina Arboretum.
"Let's find the koi," says C, and we do.
"Pops loves koi," says A, and he does.
"A butterfly!" says A.
"A swallowtail," says C.
"Yes," I say, "an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail!"
"Look at the detail," says E, and I do, and all of them -- plastic brick art, red- and yellow-limbed dogwoods, giggles and skips, smiles and silly faces bloom into one garden of joy.
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