Thursday: spike shadow

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[OT from cottage renovations]

the arrival of pokeweed is celebrated in no garden.  when detected by the people in whose yard this hapless specimen can be found its half life will be measurable only in the shortest of increments of time.  on a good day the same thing happens whenever I happen to find any of it on Town property. 

that doesn't keep me from appreciating for a moment the delicacy of the pattern formed by the shadow cast by its spike onto a lower leaf.  after that, well, it's a weed. 

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Chestnut Avenue

Phytolacca americana