Katie Byerly of Cerro Gordo County is also known as Iowa Prairie Girl on YouTube.
Several years ago I gave a presentation called “The Wildflowers of Wilkinson Park” at an assisted living. For one woman in her 90s, the images of Spring Cress (Cardamine bulbosa) stirred up fond memories. She was grinning from ear to ear and teary eyed as she reminisced, “We lived next to that area (before it was a park) and my mother would pick spring cress for our supper.”
I wonder now if she often thought about her mother and spring cress or if the images triggered a forgotten memory.
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