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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This

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is Forest Stories. I'm the Poet in the Forest, a

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children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,

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none of it would be possible if it wasn't for

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this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I

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talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's

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time that you get to know what has inspired me

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for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.

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Welcome back to the forest. Sometimes I feel like Missus

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kravitzs On the TV show Bewitched, Missus Kravitz spent a

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lot of time looking at her front window, stepping outside

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the house, and looking across the street. She always seemed

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to be nosy. But I feel like that because as

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I take these daily walks every single day through this

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beautiful forest in South Charlotte, that I notice when things

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are changing, and I want to document those changes because

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what if, you know, I said, always the power of

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what if? Well, what if? My assumption is right about

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the house here next to the lake, a very nice

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looking section of the lake that's more like a lagoon

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rather than the rough waters that a lake can bring.

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But They're from Ukraine, and they've always been the friendliest

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people really in so many different ways. But what's different,

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especially on this walk today, is that their front lawn,

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which is usually pristine, is not. It's not cut back,

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it's not properly prune. There are cars missing. Ukraine is

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at war. Where they called home? Did they go home

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to help out family members as things continue to get

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worse over there? The house owned by the Ukrainians, it's

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a very special place because every time that I've shared

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a conversation with them, it's always been so warm, so welcoming,

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and you walk away going wow, that's what having neighbors

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is all about. And to see the view that they

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created in this lagoon part of the world, it's just

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amazing in the way of enlightening the personality and someone

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who is creative. And that's the way that I see

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these guys, that they are just creative because the way

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that the lawn and the hills are designed, it's done

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so with peace from the soul. But it's very odd

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the pristine lawn owned by the Ukrainians, it doesn't look

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like somebody's home. Did they go home? Hi, maryl Thanks

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for being a part of a conversation