Cheap flowers and expensive rocks
The following photo proves three things: winter is over, there are flowers in May and even really scrappy ground can support those flowers.
Sure, those folks that hang around the gardening center has different standards. The concept of colours other than yellow, for example. But I don’t care. These flowers are here, there was no need to prep anything and I am doing my part for humanity. The bees need these flowers, and we need the bees. It’s an easy decision to make. No, I won’t be whacking the heads off, or trying to harvest blossoms to make rotgut wine. I have heard that bunnies prefer MY weeds.
Actually, there’s a lot of competition for food around the yard. I watched a squirrel throw a chipmunk down from his seed dispenser. I’ve seen the flights stacked up, waiting to touch down wherever the seeds are available. I’ve put the jars of sweet water out, before the sap pirates arrive. Doing my part for the environment.
OK, this counts as “the most ridiculous” story I’ve seen today. Over in the UK, they keep an obsolete sort of governance hereafter referred to as “the monarchy”. Over the last thousand-plus years, the group involved has gathered a huge fortune in jewelry. To each their own. But, now the family has decided that the daughter-in-law (not exactly a princess, for reasons that escape me) will NOT be allowed to wear any of that jewelry. Talk about taking petty to a new level. I have nothing else to add. Petty, petty, pretty petty.
