Thunberg's Barberry, Göteborg, May 16th, 2003

barberry babies
from under the parent hedge

  and  Staghorn Sumac

Rhus typhina
Rönnsumak i oktober
och i november

and sumac resurfacing on the right side of the entrance
where it's not supposed to be at all.
with my twenty years on this same physical address
I have lived here longer than the sumac
-vaguely remember seeing the first little tree of it
planted on the left side (though was it fifteen years ago or ten??)
and it likes to spread. They culled lots of it in October
- on the right side of the entrance the intention must have been
to get rid of it all. Which failed....