Mother Witmore's love of Nature

Veronica or as she had now been dubbed lovingly by Cripple Creek and the town of Echo as "Mother Witmore", had become famous with the people for her small nursery projects at Cripple Creek. First her great rose gardens, then came all the other variety of flowers. Then she brought in the petting zoo for her children and there friends to enjoy whenever they liked. Of course she had a professional gardener and keepers for the animals. She still supervised everything and loved it all so very much, that the town's people called her Mother Witmore as in the likeness of Mother nature herself. She was very honored and flattered at this, and proudly took the name from them. There small petting zoo consisted of shetlynn Ponies, rabbits, goats, sheep, lama's, a pond with ducks and swans, some barn cats, and toy poodles. There was also another section with more wild animals for observation and nature learning, a baby cougar, deer,an owl, field mice, even a coyote and a wolf. They of course had a marvelous hen house with roosters too. So that her children may experience collecting there very own eggs for breakfast to eat. The atrium she had built onto the house was in fact a hot house for plants, like a rain forest in the middle of the country full of all sorts of exotic plants. Plus she had there home library stocked with all the best books for teaching children on these subjects of plants and animals and nature's world around them. She wanted her children to not only be free to have a fun, exciting and great childhood but one that they could learn and grow to be adults that knew there world and surroundings well and were comfortable enough in them. Another thing she herself never had, she wanted for not only her children to have but believed everybody should have this knowledge. So that they may grow to love and respect there world and care for it just as greatly as they do there own homes. She had always feared the pollutions and other chemical waste from her big city childhood and she knew very well just how unsafe and unclean this world really could be. She hoped they would change this one day, by starting to turn it around for the better now with our children as she and her husband were trying to do. Mother Witmore, full of hope and optimism her husband went along with it all a bit reluctanly but seemed sort of bothered by all of this most of the time somehow.