Photo by Geoff Carter
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, stayed home and napped as the keeper and Phyllis wrestled with the question of “Where have all the flowers gone?” with a windshield survey designed in part to immerse them in something–spring flowers, free of the current narcissistic idiotic political meddling.
It turns out that their “survey” was a bit premature and Phyllis’s skilled flower eye saw only May Apples and Violets as she expressed a wish for Trilliums and noted the presence of the unwanted invasive Garlic Mustard
In due time! Everything in due time—the Trilliums and control of the pervasive nuisance Garlic Mustard to make more room for milkweed and compass plants and sunflowers and all the rest.
It would be a symbolic excess to use Garlic Mustard to represent the current administration and it would detract from an otherwise enjoyable flower survey. So, as the landscape in its pale green pregnancy gown is poised for delivery, the keeper and Phyllis will return in a couple of weeks to check for Trilliums while ignoring the Garlic Mustard as much as possible.
