The flowers outside our store |
Me and my seventeen month old daughter love going outside and picking dandelions. I am teaching her about making wishes on them. It is a tradition. One that I am proud to uphold and that builds a bond between me and my daughter. I believe children's wishes are much more than wishes. They are dreams, and hope. They are the wildest imaginings and emotion that a child can carry.
My daughter with her flowers |
So, knowing now how I feel about dandelions and wishes and how important they are to my child, you can imagine how upset I was when the town decided to spray the nastiest smelling weed killer all over her dandelions as well as my mother-in-law's rose bush, which sits outside of our store.
This is my mother-in-law's rosebush (notice the brown and yellow) It is almost all dead today. |
We couldn't go outside for three days because the smell was so atrocious (it literally burned my nostrils). My daughter got sick, probably from inhaling the fumes when the door opened, and all of her beautiful yellow and green wishes got turned brown. They are still there, mind you, still standing, but brown.
The dandelions after being sprayed. |
So, not only did the city fail to do what they set out to do, but they destroyed something beautiful,
something that was special. They destroyed my daughter's wishes. So I'm writing this not only to rant, but to spread the dandelion love. Be aware of what you are doing and your impact on the environment and other human beings. If you're going to destroy something, first of all, make sure you really want it gone, and second of all, make sure that you do it the right way (if you really want to kill a dandelion, you have to pull it up by the root). Please enjoy the following articles and recipes on dandelions as well as your spring and summer.
WebMD on Dandelions,
Recipes from "The Prairie Homestead" on dandelions
"The Farmer's Almanac" on Dandelions
Recipes from "The Prairie Homestead" on dandelions
"The Farmer's Almanac" on Dandelions
No comments:
Post a Comment