I too have mourned the explosion of tick weed or rag weed that has taken over yards and roadsides. In 1988 when I moved to Jefferson County east of Tallahassee the roads were lined with wildflowers including beautiful red clover. Now it’s a clutter of ugly ubiquitous white tick weed. Where’s the legacy of Lady Bird Johnson, who beautified our country?
I missed this wonderful essay in the flood of my subscriptions but it is remarkable how color and music are woven together in an almost synaesthetic whole. I'm incapable of such perception.. my lack, alas.
I too have mourned the explosion of tick weed or rag weed that has taken over yards and roadsides. In 1988 when I moved to Jefferson County east of Tallahassee the roads were lined with wildflowers including beautiful red clover. Now it’s a clutter of ugly ubiquitous white tick weed. Where’s the legacy of Lady Bird Johnson, who beautified our country?
I missed this wonderful essay in the flood of my subscriptions but it is remarkable how color and music are woven together in an almost synaesthetic whole. I'm incapable of such perception.. my lack, alas.