Weeeds*

I'm not talking about your garden variety weeds, the ones that strangle and choke your flowers or pop up through the grass and go to seed in about 2 hours. I'm talking about the ones that grow along the freeway or in empty dirt lots.

Sometimes it's scraggly stuff - no leaves, no flowers, no color - just kind of grayish-brown things that don't amount to much. Sometimes it's thick, course green things that are kind of prickly on the outside.

Around here in late summer we get these bright yellow sunflowers – whole fields full of them. They line sections of the freeway. They grow down by the river. These pictures were taken behind a gas station while I stopped for a bathroom break at work.

In the dusty brown of the high desert in Utah, it makes for nice little moments during what are normally routine parts of the day.

* The wacky extra 'E's in the spelling of weeds is in reference to an old Saturday Night Live sketch. Bonus points to anyone who gets it.