Grow Green with Me
By Carol Zetterberg

April 2010

  • Pink Tulips! Yellow Daffodils! Purple Pansies! And Forgiveness...

    Is it possible? Only four months ago, I was whining because my knees were aching and my back felt like I’d thrown it out…all because I had been planting bulbs. In December! Too late, I know, to hope they would flower in the spring, just a few months away.
       
    Yet, a short awhile ago, as I was backing out my driveway, there they were—yellow daffodils, creamy jonquils, pink and purple tulip—incredibly cheerful, and impossibly…well, impossibly there…and blooming

Carol Zetterberg is an educator, writer, wife and mother, who has been honored at the White House for her environmental efforts as one of America’s “thousand points of light.” She founded several organizations, including Langhorne Open Space, Inc., for which she still serves as Director of Funding.

Carol spent her early life on the West Coast—Oregon, Washington, California—and today, lives in the small pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania town of Langhorne, where she has served as vice president of town council and chair of the planning commission. She has two sons and daughters-in-law—Christian and Kristen and Forrest and Anarissa—and two grandsons Liam and Aeden. Larry, her husband, was a pilot in the U.S. Navy, and with Pan Am Airways and Delta Airlines.