This is so funny and amazing. The craziest things are, indeed, right at our feet. This milkweed shoot came up through last year's left-over stem. I didn't know it would even do that!

And the even shorter one, you can just see the leaves coming up through a different old stalk.

I was in the garden, whacking muhly (a grass), dandelions and prickly lettuce and leaving the milkweed pretty much to do what it wanted.

Crazy stuff!