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On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 7:03:17 PM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
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> > wrote in message
> > >>>>
> >>>>>Brooklyn1 wrote:
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> >>>>>> http://i60.tinypic.com/1z18w1x.jpg
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>Nice!
> >>>>
> >>>>A nice waste of land.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, think how lovely it would be with wild flowers in the wind.
> >>
> >>I think it's lovely just the way it is.
> >>
> >>Cheri

> >
> > To me it is too large and too manicured. What is prettier than a
> > meadowland with Queen Anne's Lace, Buttercups, and too many other wild
> > flowers too numerous to mention? Then also, all the life within a
> > meadowland as well. With meadowland the bird life would increase and
> > also bird song.
> >
> > Mowed grass = noise, waste of gas and on the ugly side. YMMV but have
> > you ever strolled through waist high meadow grass ? Not to be missed.

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> I grew up on a ranch, so yeah, I suppose I have strolled through a lot of
> things, but different strokes...I think it looks very nice as a wide open
> space.
>
> Cheri
>
>

I like it too. Buttercups only bloom in the Spring
and Queen Anne's Lace are chigger motels. I won't
even mention ticks. I see tons of birds in those
wide open spaces especially after it's freshly mowed.
They're on a mowed plot in a flash snapping up all
the insects that are now exposed.