Weeds

            People in Mariposa spend more on flowers than the average community does. Why this lust for more and more flowers is hard to comprehend.  Particularly considering that often we actually destroy flowers believing them to be weeds. 

            The question is: When does a weed become a flower? Many have a blossom that opens up like a rose to display a flowerlike bloom equal to many grown in the garden.

             Is it true that once upon a time a rose was not a rose a rose, or even a rose by any other name, but just a weed like so many others blooming about the edges of your garden..

            They only know they are weeds when we pull them out, cut them down, or sometimes even spray them with awesome poisons. Other than that they have no reason to believe they are anything but another lovely flower nodding with the breezes.

            I think the congress should set aside a “Weed Day” in June or July so we may appreciate the lovely sights that weeds bring to us all year around.

            Never is a person so tall as when he or she stoops to pull a weed..