Meet The Grumple. I first saw him on the Simpsons Christmas special this year but I realized he has been living in our neighborhood for some time.
The problem with street gardening is the complete lack of control one has over the outside world. When planting flowers on the street you have to be ready to loose it all at an instant. This was a very hard lesson for us to learn. When we first scattered wildflower seeds in 2005 they grew amazingly well.
Up until someone decided to pull them all up one night We made a nice bouquet from the remains we found on the street. Despite this we vowed to keep planting. The positive effect flowers have on the neighborhood is AMAZING! People stop me all the time and tell me how wonderful the block looks and how much they enjoy walking by every day and seeing what pops up.
This morning was especially hard for me. The grumple came by at about 1:30 am last night and decided to do his thing
This one was hard to handle. I have two Saturdays building these fences not to mention cleaning up the trees. But the Mr Grumple can not keep us down. For every act of vandalism he does we are coming back with double the amount of love. WE WE REBUILD and the flowers will THRIVE. Some days are harder than other. If you are going to do this you have to stay strong. The amount of good the flowers do far out weighs the pain caused by Mr. Grumple.
