Green grass of home
When I'm out walking, I like to check out the many gardens I pass. I love seeing how flowers and plants develop over days, weeks and the months of summer. Lately, though, I've been looking at people's lawns. Some people go all out to keep their lawn green, weed-free and shaved like a new recruit's head. Others take a more natural approach, allowing grass to grow longer and the odd weed to creep in. In my opinion, the so-called perfectly groomed lawns are over-rated. Yawn. And definitely not environmentally friendly. According to the dictionary, lawn is an alteration of a medieval English word, launde, or glade, from an old French word meaning heath or pasture. Yawn, on the other hand, is from the medieval English word yanen, an alteration of the old English yonen or yenon.


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