The Wedding Ring in the Garden

My husband lost his wedding ring while planting tomatoes in our garden in 2018. We searched for weeks. We dug through every inch of soil. Nothing. He bought a replacement and we stopped thinking about it.

This summer, five years later, I was pulling up carrots, and there it was, wrapped around a carrot. The carrot had grown right through the ring. It looked like a tiny gold belt.

I screamed so loud my husband came running out of the house thinking I'd been stung by a bee. When he saw it, he laughed until he cried.

We didn't cut it off right away. We took about two hundred photos first. Then we washed it, and he put it back on, next to the replacement. He wears both now. He says the carrot was "a very good guardian."