A series of burrows and dens connected by an intricate lace of tunnels. It is here that lives Grampa Sam who, in the early fall with a hand-stitched bag over his shoulder, moves across the Minnow Meadows collecting wildflower seeds that he stores in a small wooden cask near his bed. He keeps them dry and warm through the cold, bitter winter. In the spring, when the gentle rains come, he casts them to the wind, sowing the meadows with thousands and thousands of flowers.
In his burrow is an old stuffed arm chair and an ottoman
made of a gnarly stump. On cold winter nights, he sits in his chair and with
his feet propped up reads his favorite books with a banked fire at
his feet.
Derby Downs lives here, too, with five other young rabbits in a big burrow with a ceiling of finely woven grass and flower roots. Derby is a carpenter by trade and spends his fall and winter days repairing the heavy beams that support the tunnels here in Burrowtown.