wacky wednesday... something to ponder

I noticed it as soon as I walked out the front door to get the newspaper. I did a double take and squinted at it (like that would make it go away!) before I reached down for the paper. By the time I got back into the house I had forgotten about it.

Until I walked outside to take out some trash. And there it was again. I remember thinking it was very odd and wondering why that would happen. But by the time I was done wrestling with the trash, I had forgotten about it ... again.

Until the next morning when I got my in car to leave. Not only was it still there, it was BIGGER than the day before. I thought about what would cause that the whole time I was driving. However, when I got out of the car, my attention turned to the errands I was doing and I forgot all about it ... yet again.

Until later that day when I returned home and drove in the driveway. Yep, it was still bigger than life. I pondered it some more trying to figure out what would cause such a thing. As I unloaded the bags from my car, I went back to check it out again thinking maybe it was an optical illusion. Nope, it was real.

I decided to google it. Maybe "they" would have the answer. Nada. No matter how I worded my search, nothing came up.

So I am back to pondering why, on a sage bush pruned to have a flat top, one twig would grow substantially faster than ALL the rest. Yep, it's a stumper.