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In rural counties, they pay people to mow these down several times a year along miles of country roads. In cities, they pay florists to put such things into spiky arrangements.

We had to stop. Occupants of the nearby farmhouse might have wondered why, what we saw of interest, whether we were going to report the weeds to some authority. To us, it looked like a mob of meercats peering back.

Nothing identical, no perfect symmetry; everything orderly, all harmonious.