The Wild West

I think the only good thing that can be said about Tumbleweeds is that they're easy to pull up. By natural design, they have a shallow root system that allows them to pluck themselves when they're ready to roll and deliver their bundle of bazillions of little tumbleweed spawn. That, and when they're young and tender, they're actually kind of soft, so it doesn't hurt to pull them. Unless you've waited one day too long, when they miraculously become dry, stickery and horrid.

I have learned a lot by living on a large piece of undeveloped land, number one is that "undeveloped" is actually another word for "dusty", and number two, there is nothing poetic or sentimental about tumbleweeds.