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Some of ya’ll up nawth still have snow. But down here spring has returned after a cold weekend, and, after all the rain of recent weeks, the grass was getting tall. Was until I finished mowing it a few minutes ago. I noticed the deep (well, sometimes) red Louis Philippe roses are in bloom, and the Winecup, a dark red wildflower. I always try to put off the first mowing as long as possible because, as a neighbor once told me, grass grows (counter-intuitively) when you mow it. Seems to work that way.