But I was walking down a dark sidewalk on the way to the best Chicken Enchiladas in San Anselmo!  And there in the crack of the sidewalk was one of my favorite plants growing like a weed! The Pink Puffball Plant; a wonderful, drought tolerant creeping ground cover that you can walk on and ignore, and which keeps on living.

It has a variegated leaf, for extra appeal, staining the center of each leaf with purple. And the flowers emerge as tight pink clusters… little puffballs. I love them!

So I might have freed a handful, since it was growing in the concrete. I mean, eventually it would have broken down the sidewalk, creating a pedestrian hazard, right?

The stems are waiting in a pail of water for me. Tomorrow I’ll tuck them into the soil around the bird bath where the roses grow. There are other pink puffballs there. It’s a community now.