you have strange laws where you live. it's like a gated community with its own homeowner's association and police force. what are they worried about? field mice? ticks? grass fires?

to be fair, there were other weeds that were larger (dead wild sunflowers) and the yard did look kind of trashy, but nothing that would pose a health hazard.

However, that's not very poetic, and I am using license!

but, but, dead sunflowers look cool! interior designers put them in vases on purpose!

"looking trashy" doesn't sound like a good reason to CITE somebody... [grrr! sorry, but my infantile "it's not fair!" button got pushed by this.]

sometimes i wish i could see pictures of where you live - i know it's generally a bad idea in terms of net anonymity [and keeping whackos from stalking you] but your stories about your neighborhood and environment make me curious.

It's basically an old working class neighborhood that has been overrun by a bunch of bourgie idiots who are buying houses here for ridiculously inflated sums of money and wanting to sell them for even more.

Does that help you?

LOL - sounds exactly like my neighborhood!