05/13/2026
“The Wayward Branch” is finished. I didn’t keep up with how many hours it took but it was worth it however many it was.
This chair was my great grandmother Holland’s and the needlepoint was done by my grandmother Thompson (her daughter). It has been in my house for years mostly in a corner and sometimes holding “stuff”. Now it represents to me my roots in this community and how those roots keep growing.
I remember playing in their gardens as a child with my cousin as we pretended we were getting married in their backyards and climbing the giant magnolia tree! There was even a koi pond that we were told was a bottomless pit. 😂
All of the women before me have had beautiful gardens and their green thumbs carried on for several generations until me. I have a love and knowledge about plants that I learned from my mom and grandmother. I do have several plants that have been passed down to me from my great grandmother’s garden and they have survived! It’s those good roots! My hope is to share those with my daughter, daughter in law and grand daughters now. Maybe the green thumb gene will pick back up in one of them.
