Cutting diagonally across my neighbor's empty lot and into our front yard is an odd phenomenon. A strip of land where the grass dies first every fall and is saturated with dandelions in the spring. It is a pure, sunshine-yellow path that leads to our yard. We call it Dandelion Road. I asked my neighbor, who is pushing seventy and grew up in our little Greentown, about it and he told me that it is where the trolly used to run. Years later they took out the trolly and replaced it with train tracks and the railroad ran through the strip until a train derailed in our yard. He showed me the stone railroad property marker at the end of our property. I'll try to post a photo next spring or if they let their yard go without mowing soon.

THAT IS SO COOL!......... i used to have a small patch of clovers a while ago....... i loved it so much...... it even attracted rabbits, they love clovers. but we made some additions to our house so the clovers died off. BUT I SEE TRACES OF THEM COMING BACK!

Now, clovers, I will and do plant. Dandelions I won't.

By the way, for those of you thinking "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" The 85th birthday of Pete Seeger, writer of that song, was on Monday this week. Next to Ray, Pete is THE MAN!

ha... you got the joke of the topic's title. i wonder if anyone else did.

You are talking MAJOR Pete Seeger fan here!

Ettil, did you see "The Family Circus" cartoon today?