# 31 Wishful thinking.....

Even this sharp thistle barb looks nice, on a cold winter day.  The sun was out, but the cold temps were still here all day.  Salted streets, driveway and sidewalks are the order of the day.  This thistle is one of my biggest gardening mistakes!  It was in a mixed flat of prairie flowers....yep, it is a prairie flower, more like a mutant flower.  It got over 7 ft. tall this year, and hacking most of it off din't help much.