Isabella loved to garden. She especially loved the succulents that thrived with such little attention. In the drought, they quietly did their thing and in the flooding rain they soaked up the goodness like plump sponges. Isabella especially loved the architectural nature of succulents. The angles and the structures of these plants played in the shadows of an otherwise uninhabitable environment. Isabella also loved their resilience. The way one broken petal could be shoved in soil and grow into a complete plant, bewildered Isabella. These amazing little succulents went about their business without any fuss. Isabella knew that the freezing frost was about to launch its wrath on these succulents. They had survived it in the past and again, they will conquer the cold with little complaint. Perhaps a lesson for us all.