Their Back Yard Beauties--Our Front Yard Nightmare

SueBaum — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:45:10 GMT

Imagaine…You are retired in your cedar log home on a brown pebbled lane amidst tall green grasses speckled with buttery yellow wildflowers. Sit on your front farmers porch, look through your telescope and watch the field across the road. Wild grouse run across the ridge line, a mother deer and fawn emerge from the tree line. Watch the horizon grow tangerine reflecting the sunset opposite. Drawn from under the covers next morning, sip hot coffee and peek and the sky until you can not bear the brilliance. The sun climbs quickly like a movie in fast motion. Farmers mow the hay and the aroma takes you back to your childhood. You feed the Canadian geese and their young until four hundred congregate, circle your house and honk good-bye as they head east for the winter. During the winter, you and your telescope explore the stars in the Milky Way, and you use some fast film to capture the snow glimmering on those Douglas Furs in the moonlight, and those watery icicles sparkling in the morning sun. Too good to be true? That is what we had…until the spring of 2006. Know those lovely red tomatoes you get at the supermarket ...

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Their Back Yard Beauties--Our Front Yard Nightmare