"Phoebe Rose, my granddaughter, was with me as I stopped to take a picture of a flowering tree near the forest preserve on 188th Place. "'Oma, let me do it,' she said. So with my camera and her keen eye this picture was taken." (Photo: Phoebe Rose)
“Don’t know if many readers have ever seen a quince bush here in Lansing,” wrote Wilma Straatman when she submitted this photo from the quince bush in front of her house. “Some flowers are hidden deep inside the bush, so taking a photograph isn’t so simple at times.” (Photo: Wilma Straatman)
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Both pictures are great. Enjoyed learning about the quince bush and sharing with the green thumb in our family.