Written for the Jan 7 99-word Flash Fiction challenge with the prompt words of ‘butterfly’ and ‘stone’.
When you were small, you used to call butterflies ‘flutterbys’ and you’d chase them through my veg patch and I’d pretend to be angry but you’d just laugh and keep running. When you got older, you’d stone the crows in my corn patch because you were going through your ‘everything has to be yellow’ phase and you made me plant a hundred sunflowers and buy a golden retriever. When you visited with your daughter and she chased the flutterbys through the veg patch, the wind blew dust in my eyes and I had to rub them for a while.
Six Crooked Highways 
A beautiful take on the prompt! Got a little dust in my eye by the end too. Thank you for writing this.
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Thank you, Rebecca, much appreciated.
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But how swift time flies by
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Indeed it does!
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I’m thinking that dust is catching in the readers’ eyes. I loved the imagery, especially the details of the yellow phase and the contrast of crows.
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A sweet piece, Doug.
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Ber yoo tiful story Doug!
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Thanks, Hobbo 🙂
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What is that saying; “If I knew grandchildren would be so much fun… I’d have had them first!”
😀
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Beautiful, Doug.
That darn dust. Finds its way to our eyes, just when we think we have things under control.
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Someone needs to invent a dustbuster for sentimental old gardeners. 😉
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Yes indeed. 🙂
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Aww! Darn Memories!!
Loved your take.
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Thank you, much appreciated.
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Ah! The dust of sweet sentiment!
Such a lovely write!
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Thanks, Liz. There is a heart somewhere under that cynical old crust. 😉
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We all knew that!😉
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Yeah. Dang dust.What a beautiful cyclic tale.
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Many thanks, D
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Lol. That’s why you should wear sunglasses at night.
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You’ve lost me, Goldie, on sunglasses at night. I know it ceases to be funny when you have to explain it but indulge me. 🙂
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Sunglasses prevent dust (and other like material from getting into your eyes). “At night” was just an addition inspired by the song “Sunglasses at night.” My weird humor and logic.
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All in favour of the latter. 🙂
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Yep, very moving…misty-eyed.
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