Susan, I was happy seeing it, too. When I was growing up, there was a lot of butterfly weed all around. Nobody thought much about it. Now people are buying it for their gardens. I imagine all flowers were once weeds until people started cultivating and growing them.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
