The designer/creator of Kubota Gardens in Seattle
(see http://www.kubota.org ) has died at age 87.
Obituaries he

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._kubota17.html
http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APS...D84H0AAO0.html

"Instead of flowers" one of the obits notes, "remembrances be made to
Kubota Garden Foundation, P.O. Box 78338, Seattle, WA 98178-0338, or to a
favorite charity." Obviously to the Foundation would be great.

-paghat the ratgirl

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"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com