Sassafras Branch with a Carrot for Wiggily (Deborah Goldman)

Inspired by "Uncle Wiggily in the Woods" and particularly the chapter about Sassafras, I set out on a hunt. Starting In Key West, Florida and traveling up the coast it was only when I got to Northern Florida that I found a few specimens. Barely worth keeping, but I did. Finally in Massachusetts at the Arnold Arboretum did i find an abundance of glorious Sassafras. The carrot in this collage is a gift for Uncle Wiggily and Roger Garis. Roger Garis was the author of the Wiggily series, and he, like me, liked multiples. He wrote stories every day for 50 years; I am grateful to him in absentia.