cherry pickers

couldn't resist posting this story about urban bees in NYC.

a gift for that loved one who really should quit smoking

From  40 yards away, I thought this might have been a discarded houseplant or (even better) a failed perennial or shrub that I could rescue. But then I realized that it was near the smokers' station outside Duke South. Gross.

DOn'T

So, a few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled "Roadside Attraction".   It was an optimistic look at what I let go to seed in the ditch by my road.....a busy road maintained by NCDOT.  One of their maintenance chores is to cut down the weeds that may be crowding culverts. *Sigh*.... and the cutleaf coneflower was due to bloom any week now. So now, a little more roadside runoff will go unfiltered into the watershed.
Maybe next year I will put up a homemade "no mow" sign and see if that deters them.