Turf War

Few people truly love lawn maintenance, and my dear neighbor is one of them. The rest, including me, do it for peer pressure--for being 'good neighbors.' I do it and hate it.

Turf war, on New Yorker, discusses this issue. Two notes from the article:

1. Sometimes, having guts is not enough. A 76-year old widow got hand-cuffed away for letting her lawn 'brown.'
2. Wild Ones is promoting 'Natural Plants, Natural Landscapes'. Hmm.. I love that slogan. Under that, there would be no more 'weeds', instead, they are 'natural plants.' A yard full of 'natural plants' has a 'natural landscape'. How nice it is!