Day 3 catchup:
For day three, I am looking at the small place on the planet that I was placed. I love my home.
Again, I am not speaking of the 4 walls and roof that house me, but the town, county, state, country I was placed in. I have told my husband, since before he married me, that I was a YUCCA, so today, I decided to look up exactally what the internet says a yucca is. Starting with Wikipedia: Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.[2] Its 40-50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry (arid) parts of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Early reports of the species were confused with the cassava (Manihot esculenta).[3] Consequently, Linnaeus mistakenly derived the generic name from the Carib word for the latter, yuca (spelt with a single "c").[4] It is also colloquially known in the Midwest United States as "ghosts in the graveyard", as it is commonly found growing in rural graveyards and when in bloom the flowers appear as floating apparitions.
I never knew the part about Ghosts in the graveyard until I read this but I kinda like the discription.
The best part I see is that we, yuccas, are evergreen. We are adaptable as a tree or a shrub. we have tough, sword shaped leaves and beautiful flowers. We are native to arid climates.
I have always told my husband that we, yucca's, are very hearty, but we do not transplant well, as our roots have to go very deep to find water.
I love the fact that my family came to this area as settlers before there were hardly any other people here.
I love that I can look up at the sky and see the sun, moon and stars. I love how huge our sky is here and that it is blue nearly every of the year.
I love the remoteness of the population. I love that a traffic jam is maybe 5-6 cars driving slowly.
Thank you for putting me in this place.
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