CANYONS AND WATERFALLS

It had rained hard the night before. Jenny took a walk on the road to the south to see what wonders the rain had performed to to transform the ditches. There was one stretch of road that last night’s rain had eroded into miniature canyons with tiny waterfalls where the ground sloped downward. Jenny had never seen either canyons or waterfalls, but she had seen pictures of them and read descriptions about them in books. She thought the ditch looked so beautiful this way. The sandier softer section of the ditch looked very ordinary

Soon after she got back to the house, Daddy’s first cousin Emmett drove into the yard with his three children Donna Jo, Donald Wayne and Russell Dean. Donna Jo was a year younger than Margaret, Donald Wayne was a year older than Jenny, and the youngest, Russell Dean, was three years younger than Jenny. They went to the same school as Margaret and Jenny and were their third cousins. Emmett had come to borrow a piece of equipment and said he couldn’t stay long. Jenny said she had something beautiful to show them if they’d follow her.

“What?” asked Margaret skeptically.

“Wait and see. “it’s a surprise.”

“Well, I guess we can go, but I don’t believe it.”

The little procession traipsed up the road. with Jenny in the lead, for a change.

When they got to the beauty spot, Jenny said, “Look! Aren’t the canyons and waterfalls beautiful right here?”

Donna Jo snickered, “That’s just a old grader ditch,” and she and Donald Wayne and Russell Dean laughed and laughed at Jenny and called her a dummy.

Margaret really thought they were rather pretty. but she wasn’t going to say so now.

Jenny thought to herself. “When Susan comes over she will understand and will like them too.” With a friend like Susan, you could share beautiful ideas together and the only limits would be their imaginations.