Growing season

So humid, warm and often sopping wet, the plant life around this neighborhood is growing explosively. You feel that if you tarried too long by that vine on the wall, it would wrap around you and incorporate you into its form. The linden tree in our parking strip seems to be pushing out new lengths to its branches daily. I've whacked it back and you can't tell anything was removed.
Wondering how the gay-bashing amendment will go tomorrow. The Repugs get something out of it either way. If it goes down, they will have made their hypocritical stand before their moronic base, and can of course point to the godless perverted solons who voted against it. Desperate measures for desperate people.