WAS // NOW

On my bike ride to work this morning, I made a short list of how things were but are no longer:

• Dock weed
• was: green flower stalks . . . 
• now: rusty spindles
• Canada thistle
• was: flowering . . . 
• now: almost all gone to down
• Bee balm
• was: unnoticed . . . 
• now: beautiful pale violet blossoms
• Cow parsnip
• was: green umbels with seeds forming . . . 
• now: umbels are brown in color
• Clovers
• was: in June, only white clover flowers
• now: by July, the purple clovers complement the scenery