And now there was vegetation, grass sprouting out of the dirty red mud.
When spring arrived, but no grass sprouted, one working mom after another offered her names of landscapers.
Large patches of sagebrush are being burned and grasses have sprouted again.
On either side the grass sprouted rapidly, sending its deep roots into the sand, grabbing, holding.
After heavy rains, native grasses and flowering plants would sprout, but drought seemed to always return.
Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom.
If new grass sprouting through old bones is not the essence of rejuvenation and renewal, I don't know what is.
The grass will sprout sweet and high-though not too high-at the base of our family flagpoles again.
It was already half-green, covered with snaking vines, and grass sprouted haphazardly.
A charred smell stung Rachel's nostrils, but new green grass sprouted through dark burned spots.