The bean patch doubles as Henry's dining room, the path to the pond as his grand stairway.

From the high end of the bean patch, Wili could see over the pines.

It has 120 homes, dozens of bean patches, a single mud road.

Far along the mud road, where Lisec begins to run out of bean patches and potato fields, is the village's small school house.

To one side was a bean patch; to the other, a woodpile which almost dwarfed the house.

Two years later, she became the first female pilot to fly out of the bean patch that later became Los Angeles International Airport.

Goha," she said, seeing her weeding in the bean patch, "Goha, it's a bad thing.

She wandered on past the bean patch towards the edge of the cliff and along it.

He sat on the threshold, looking out into the day, and Tenar, coming around the house from the bean patch, looked at him.

"Pa's out hoeing the bean patch, Mr. Brazee," she said spiritedly.