One of the first flowers to bloom in spring is the perennial Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla.) You might have heard it called prairie crocus, wind flower, Easter Flower or meadow anemone. The pasque flower is the official state flower of South Dakota, but we won't hold that against it.
Pasque refers to Easter (Passover) as the flower blooms around that time (except when Easter is really, really early like this year.)
Pasque flower is highly toxic, and produces cardiogenic toxins and oxytoxins which slow the heart in humans, and has been used as a medicine by Native Americans for centuries.
Also making its first appearance of 2008 in the LipsYard, the Dandelion (Taraxacum.) We don't like this lovely yellow pest very much, and do everything we can to keep it under control.
No president has ever had a 71% dissaproval rating with the American public, until now. George W. Bush has just become the first. The latest CNN poll shows that the man who brought us the Iraq war and the current state of the economy with his love for big business, is the most unpopular president in history. Who came closest to W`s low ratings? Richard Nixon right before he resigned in 1974!
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