My Morning Rainbow

Today I walked along the minimum maintenance road near our house.  I have not walked there for a few years, since they sprayed it and killed all the pretty things.  I noticed the other day that some of it is re-greening, so I thought I'd give it another chance. 

Lovely things I saw on my walk today:

• black birds, twittering in the tall weeds at the side of the road, fluttering up when I neared.
• silvery, white Foxtail grasses shimmering in the morning sun.
• deep yellow Sow thistle blossoms
• rich pinkish-purple Canadian thistle flowers
• the snowy glow of the spent Canadian thistle flowers
• white and yellow sweet clover waving happily in the morning air
• the pale yellow  of the ripening wheat field
• the deep green of the verdant soybeans
• wild canola-like weed thing with dainty yellow flowers
• a sharptail grouse who flushed from the field along the way
• bladder campions greeting me with their clean and fresh whiteness
• pale purple milkweed flowerettes

Ugly things I saw on my walk:

• dried grasses along the edge of the apparently Round-up resistant soybeans
• the harsh woody stems that remain after they mowed.  So many less desirable things growing there after the previous growth was killed off.  Sigh. 
• so many of the milkweeds were brown and dead from apparent spraying.