Another Year, Another Haircut

The ornamental grass tuft at the back corner of my front yard got a little shaggy and sheddy after the recent storms.

I wasn't originally planning to give it a haircut this year, as it regrows just fine through the dead blades of the previous year's growth, but since it was dumping a lot of blades onto the mulch and into the rocks of the fake stream, I decided to trim it back.

This looks much more tidy. Also kind of ugly, until it grows back.

In gardening, ugliness is both fleetingly temporary, and ever present in one form or another. The only constant is change.