Sunflowers

 Despite the lack of rain I've got sunflowers coming up again and it looks like I'll have a lot. They really don't need a lot of water. Lubbock used to have many fields of tall sunflowers but I have not seen that in many a year. To conserve water I no longer irrigate parts of my front yard. If it rains it turns green and if not it's mostly weeds that are drought hardy. Of course, I keep those weeds cut to comply with city regulations. Great thing about those weeds is that they will grow and stay green under very adverse conditions, such as drought. Meadow grass has also returned in the back yard and I'm just going to let it grow. It's nice to see it waving in the wind when it is tall and putting on those tasty seeds. So hard to harvest though. Everything is quite stable around here. I wonder sometimes about the long term prospects of this area but my own long term prospects are close to non-existent so why worry. 

There's many a persona I can dredge up and it pleases me lately to be an old cracker, a crusty and somewhat quaint old feller living in my own private Hickyville. Yes, Hickyville, where the good folks do dwell, close to the soil and soaked in old traditions that the city dwellers find amusing if not downright stupid.