yellow dandy lions dotted the sage brush and the moist earth sucked their shoes. maddy grinned thinking about what katherine might say. she would say, maddy did you do this? he would say, yes , i did. as they got closer to home, he saw smoke blazing into the sky where the saudi would be. they had built the fire she and his brother mark. saddy was walking ahead. madison looked at the drunken line of stitches on her sleeve the crook ed seam and the knot of material that rode her shoulder like a hump much the air began to feel thick like water. wait. he grabbed her arm and picked at the stitches he had made. saddy tried to wrench away but he picked frantically at her sleeve and the dark fury the new look that made him shiver that was not her sister came into her eyes. he didn't let go, this is no good don't worry. madison picked andtory the thread until it came loose and the blue fly witch could not tell what he had done. saddy went limp. she stared off toward the poppy mark had planted which stuck like finger bones out of the earth. thank you. >> hi. nice to be here

so -- locally, things they would use for medicines, they would use things like dandy lions which was great for if constipated. and it was an early painkiller. one of my favorites they used was a tree called tickle tongue. tickle tongue was what they would use prior to dental work. you can suck on it and it makes your mouth go numb. as good as novocaine? no, but it was better than nothing. moving to the back, this was the doctor's dental office and also, the pharmacy. there would be jars and vials of ground-up powders and whatnot and he would make his own pills and his own medicines that way. and, of course, like i said, they used things that would grow naturally. some of them actually did have some medicinal purposes and actually worked. some of them did not. a lot of these recipes, they'd call them prescriptions that they used for medicines, called for things that are poisonous. so there are recipes that called, believe it or not, that require that you put three drops of heck lock in it. that's very poisonous. several called for crushed up buckeye seeds. the buckeye is poisonous. so

so this is a sort of iris plant in bloom against a sort of field essentially of what looked lake dandy lions and grass. but the space is quite nice because he is giving you, he is carefully articulating each of the blades and leaves of the iris but the grass seems to be coming up, rising up towards you. >> rose: the next is vineyards. this is in 1890. look at this. >> there is very near the end of his life. not that he knew it at that time. he is a dutchman. he loves the great outdoors. he loves the big sky. and he knew all about monday et and pizarro and loved them. he was terribly nice to him. but he somehow, are you not going to really get out of here. you get back to the old convention of atmospheric perspective which is supposed to woosh you out the back. he has pretty much sealed the escape hatch out at the horizon thing. forcing in its way, and this is all part of the whole, of animating this absolutely absurd nothing's rigged here. he, but there is li internal, he lendowed the earth are the kind of power of surging, don't you think, finding a way that you here to give a sort of a cel

we pray for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfulls of dandy lions.em die. who can't find any bread to steal. who don't have any rooms to clean up, who is pictures aren't on anybody's dresser. who is monsters are real. we pray for children who grow tantrums in the grocery store and picket their food, who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out the tub. who don't like to be kissed in front of the carpool. who is tears we sometimes laugh at and who is smiles can make us cry. we pray for those whose nightmares come in the daytime. who will eat anything. who have never seen a dentist, who aren't spoiled by anybody, who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep. we pray for children who want to be carried and fos those who must. or for those we never give up on or for those who don't get a second chance, for those, we smother and for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer it, we pray for those children. you can read edelman's entire prayer for children on our blog, mhpshow.com. and that's our show for today, thank you

you see dandy lions, you can't have any dandlions. >> all you do is snap it into the container.the 11:00er over. it doesn't spray around. it keeps it contained in the grass area. >> if you have a smaller yard, or a front patch, you can use a hand spreader. >> you have a lot of stuff on the table we want to look at. >> yes. >> does that act like a ra vacuum cleaner? >> no, that spreads. it is a broadcaster of seeds. >> i like that. what do you have here? pruning for your shower beds. it has its own sprinkler. all you do is open the lid and sprinkle the can. you have the weed blocker. you put that down before the mulch. you have a hand sprinkler for your flower pots that is smaller than your lawn sprinkler. >> make sure your lawn mower is up to date. you use a sharp flade blade for cutting your grass. bag your grass, if you can. you don't want it clumping into the new grass because it will protect -- it will hamper the growth of your grass. you have to sharpen it. it is like cutting bread. you can't cut a loaf of bread with a dull knife. >> thank you so much. all this stuff you ca