You Can Ask The Flowers
Sketches of flowers showed not just their physical structure but seemed to capture something essential about their nature—as if Eleanor had learned to draw the souls of plants.
"What are these symbols?" Iris asked, tracing a delicate spiral that seemed to pulse under her fingertip.
"Miss Eleanor called them 'growth patterns.' Said every plant had its own language, its own song, and these were her attempts to translate." Mrs. Hartwell moved to one of the bookcases, withdrawing a leather-bound volume. "This was her first journal, started when she came here in 1890. You might want to begin there."
The journal fell open in Iris's hands as though eager to share its secrets. Eleanor's youthful han