My friend Jim was helping with a few things Friday. We were driving down the road when he asked what the white flowers were in the neighbor's bean field.
When I took the photo it was late enough in the evening the light wasn't very good for my phone. Here is a better view from a web site I found
It's been years since I saw those in a bean field. Roundup kind of solved that problem.
Anyway, later we went past the cemetery and picked up a couple limbs that were down. We took them down to Mom's brush pile and I commented "Watch out for the sandburrs."
"What's a sandburr?"
So I showed him
I won't repeat everything he said, but he was suitably impressed. He allowed as how those things would poke right through your skin! I agreed.
It also got me thinking how weeds have changed. We rarely have a Jimson Weed problem any more
and hemp dogbane isn't nearly the problem it looked like 20 year ago
By the same token, 20 years ago we didn't know what a waterhemp or Palmer amaranth was. And we still have Giant Ragweeds and Velvetleaf.
Probably always will.
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