@ai6yr A building next to mine had a pile of tumbleweeds 10 feet high and the entire length of the wall. Every single truck/SUV had tumbleweeds caught underneath it, and any truck with a snowplow attachment now looked like it had been plowing thorns. Going outside without being armored in a car meant risking being hit in the face with a thorn bush.
@ai6yr Yes, it's interesting that tumbleweeds are a staple of the "Western frontier" look, when they didn't get here until 1873. They are, rather, a staple of the "Western frontier as seen through Hollywood lenses."
@sciencewrighter@ai6yr id like to posit that tumbleweeds are iconic to the Western Frontier, because it only became a frontier when the settlers (and their weed seeds) invaded it.
"Russian thistle is primarily a weed in sites where the soil has been disturbed, such as along highways and fencelines. It is also prevalent in vacant lots and other noncrop areas, in field and vegetable crops, and in poorly tended landscapes. It is rarely a problem in well-managed gardens or turfgrass."
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