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This article focuses on the author's work at a rundown grocery store on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah. The rear end of the produce room was an old receiving metal door. It was a noisy roll-up doorthat was rusted and straining at the seams, but unlocked. When the door was opened the loading dock can be seen.

The article describes the author's impressions of the Oregon Garden's Children's Garden on two separate occasions. When it first opened the author took her 4 year old daughter there, but found many of the "touchable" plants unreachable, the "dinosaur bed" too hot and unshaded, and generally little with child appeal. Returning in 2006, the author reports an empty Children's Garden, plants still unreachable, turtle stepping stones impassable, and the dinosaur "dig" still unshaded, in contrast to the Red Rock Botanical Garden in Salt Lake City.