Today is the first day this year that I noticed the bamboo shoots. I happened to spot this guy erupting out of the yard in an inconvenient, high traffic spot:
But at least that one didn't try to kill me. While dumping a zombie-cchini found in the fridge onto the compost pile, I almost fell over another bamboo shoot lurking in the hedge of wild violets that I haven't had the heart to mow down yet. And then to add insult to injury, I couldn't find it again to take a picture of it! (Not that I looked too thoroughly - I didn't want to hang around the zombie-cchini any longer than necessary.)
So, I'm going to try to photograph the bamboo shoot above until I get tired of it and remove it from the yard with an axe. That's if I don't fall over it and squish it before it hardens into the bone-like stalk we all know and don't love when it erupts in the middle of the yard.
But at least that one didn't try to kill me. While dumping a zombie-cchini found in the fridge onto the compost pile, I almost fell over another bamboo shoot lurking in the hedge of wild violets that I haven't had the heart to mow down yet. And then to add insult to injury, I couldn't find it again to take a picture of it! (Not that I looked too thoroughly - I didn't want to hang around the zombie-cchini any longer than necessary.) So, I'm going to try to photograph the bamboo shoot above until I get tired of it and remove it from the yard with an axe. That's if I don't fall over it and squish it before it hardens into the bone-like stalk we all know and don't love when it erupts in the middle of the yard.
