In the front yard, a few balloon flowers grew if one remembered not to mow over them.   Realizing the lawnmower was depriving me of flowers, we stopped mowing the patch of grass where the balloon flowers grew.

Underneath a thousand manicured lawns are long forgotten blooms & wildflowers, gardens planted years ago just waiting for a season when the house or lawn mowing is abandoned.

The flowers are about to bloom again. Watching their progress every day, I am reminded of the moment I discovered the balloon flowers in the overgrown lawn.