How about alfalfa spouts?

Watch the alfalfa bloom.

Alfalfa and cattle, run by Paul and Ronnie Brenham, and it's pretty idyilic.

Happy as a colt in clover.

Green Shoots or Yellow Weeds?

So I grow my own beansprouts.

Taste buds, every ten days or so.

Go wrap your thumb in some bayberry leaves.

The last time I went to Kodai Temple, the bush clover was splendid.

Milking the cows, lying in the clover, and letting the joy of God's nature flow into my heart.

I know a 24 hour bean sprout soup place,

We've got edible canal towpaths, and we've got sprouting cemeteries.

But that spring, there were new buds popping up from the earth.

Photo of Cherry Blossoms In January by Night Heron on Flickr.

I have not been performed.

Alfalfa and cattle, run by Paul and Ronnie Brenham, and it's pretty idyllic. It's also hard work.

Some species have the polyps budding directly off the stolon which roots the colony.

Of limping winter treads, even such delight Among fresh female buds shall you this night

But the trees that line the streets can sprout new buds no matter how cold the wind.

The larvae of Rhynchitinae feed in flower buds, fruits, and terminal shoots, or are leaf miners.

Whether we're talking about beef cattle or we're talking about chickens, or we're talking about broccoli or Brussels sprouts, or in the case of this morning's New York Times, catfish which wholesale are going out of business.

BEIJING Now that the green shoots of recovery have withered, the debate over fiscal stimulus is back with a vengeance.

It's that they deliver a product that is perfectly congruent with our evolved taste buds. and this is exactly what the Atkins diet did, right?

Recent data on employment, retail sales, industrial production, and housing in the United States remain very weak Europe s first quarter GDP growth data is dismal Japan s economy is still comatose and even China which is recovering has very weak exports.

Cambridge Markets are bubbling over signs of green shoots in the global economy.

By seven months of gestation, the fetus' taste buds are fully developed, and its olfactory receptors, which allow it to smell, are functioning.

New York As spring comes to America, optimists are seeing green sprouts of recovery from the financial crisis and recession.

By seven months of gestation, the fetus' taste buds are fully developed, and its olfactory receptors, which allow it to smell, are functioning.

Attention will focus on turning the green shoots of recovery into sustainable green growth, leading to green economies consistent with the goal of protecting the world s climate.

In spite of some spring sprouts, we should prepare for another dark winter it s time for Plan B in bank restructuring and another dose of Keynesian medicine.

So, green shoots of stabilization may be replaced by yellow weeds of stagnation if several medium term factors constrain the global economy s ability to return to sustained growth.

At the Burkina Faso border with Côte d'Ivoire, the Group saw large amounts of spilt cotton buds along the side of the road from Banfora to the border and into Côte d'Ivoire.

NEW YORK While discussions about economic green shoots continue unabated in the United States, in many countries, and especially in the developing world, matters are getting worse.

Whether we're talking about beef cattle or we're talking about chickens, or we're talking about broccoli or Brussels sprouts, or in the case of this morning's New York Times, catfish which wholesale are going out of business.

He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into the yawning jaws awaiting him and the whale shoots to all his ivory teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison.

Japanese media tracks and reports on the pollen season each year in much the same way it reports on the blooming of the cherry blossoms.

The question is how long and deep this downturn will be. In spite of some spring sprouts, we should prepare for another dark winter it s time for Plan B in bank restructuring and another dose of Keynesian medicine.

Cunningly, Putin then strapped this apathy to the first shoots of post Soviet economic growth in order to conclude a new social contract he would raise living standards in exchange for ordinary Russians acceptance of severe limits on their constitutional rights and liberties.

NEW YORK There is little doubt that green will be the metaphorical color of choice for world leaders when they gather at the G 20 Summit in Pittsburgh. Attention will focus on turning the green shoots of recovery into sustainable green growth, leading to green economies consistent with the goal of protecting the world s climate.