Tanks and Foraging...

  Kind of cool that it is named after (hahah) my child!!
 
 We pulled over the car so my son could climb on the tank and investigate it.
 
 As the child climbs, his mother notices the edibles...I have discovered once you become a forager, you can give it up...Foraging does you in...It changes you. Everywhere I go, I look at plants and notice them for the edibility or their function...Poor plants. This is plantain - nature's bandaid and general cure almost anything...

 wild onion...

 henbit...

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