For the Bees

While I was out feature-hunting Saturday, this little girl was hunting for things to fill a plastic bottle. I asked her what she was doing and her dad answered for her (this is pretty standard procedure for my interviews with the 5-and-under crowd).

Him: "Oh, that's for the bees."

Me: "Oh, you keep bees at home?"

Him: "No. But she said she was getting flowers for the bees," he answered, completely straight-faced.

How lovely, to spend a beautiful afternoon outside, and adopt your 4-year-old's fantasy world without question.



Nicholas Rose (left), 8, of Murrysville watches as Emily Rose, 4, of Murrysville, looks for items to fill a plastic bottle of flowers she said were for the bees, during her sister's softball game at James E Townsend Memorial Park in Murrysville.
(Sarah Beth Glicksteen/Tribune-Review)