Road ditches are surprisingly beautiful and occasionally trashy...like some of my past relationships. In the late summer there are golden flowers, bright yellows, shades of purple and blue, some reds and bright whites. Different shapes and different sizes. Some spread wide open and others tightly closed around themselves. Placed against the different shapes and sizes of green leaves it all becomes a mosaic.
I don't know the names of most of the flowers. I have a mild curiosity but not a burning desire to know. I have an appreciation for their beauty but more so I have a appreciation for the irony that all this beauty is in something called a ditch. Ditch conjures up negative stuff like, "He was ditched by his wife." Whenever I didn't study my parents reminded me that I would end up a 'ditch digger'.
I'm changing the name! The strip of land on the edge of a road, formerly known as a ditch, will now be called a 'road border'. "In the late summer the many flowers in bloom turned the road border into a stained glass museum."
"The speeding gravel truck late for work forced my dogs and I into the road border."
One of the biggest mistakes I make is not drinking enough...water that is. Even on short walks I should drink right before and right after. When I'm not handling dogs, I carry some with me. On my long walks, I drive the route the night before and put down water bottles every few miles. Hot water is better than no water.
I don't know the names of most of the flowers. I have a mild curiosity but not a burning desire to know. I have an appreciation for their beauty but more so I have a appreciation for the irony that all this beauty is in something called a ditch. Ditch conjures up negative stuff like, "He was ditched by his wife." Whenever I didn't study my parents reminded me that I would end up a 'ditch digger'.
I'm changing the name! The strip of land on the edge of a road, formerly known as a ditch, will now be called a 'road border'. "In the late summer the many flowers in bloom turned the road border into a stained glass museum."
"The speeding gravel truck late for work forced my dogs and I into the road border."
One of the biggest mistakes I make is not drinking enough...water that is. Even on short walks I should drink right before and right after. When I'm not handling dogs, I carry some with me. On my long walks, I drive the route the night before and put down water bottles every few miles. Hot water is better than no water.
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