The Stegasaurus Plant

Often LP's actions remind me how easy it can be to say "yes" to imagination. Or perhaps better said is how easy it can be to "trigger your partner's imagination" (as one of my all-time favorite improv teachers, Patti Stiles, would say)

On a very sloooooow walk home from the bus, LP stopped to inspect a plant, observing it was "spiky" and "spiny." I offhandedly said it reminded me of a stegosaurus...and boy howdy, she took that idea of plants being dinosaurs and took off with it!


Pointing to one plant after another...that one is a tyrannosaurus rex:



That one is a brontosaurus:

That one is a triceratops:


That one is a anklylosaurus...

What a pleasure it was to see her face light up and energy soar as she played with the idea of plants as dinosaurs.