Sleeping Beauty's Castle

Yesterday I went out to put the blackberries I already cut into the yard waste bin. I was so good-- I even changed into pants and wore leather gloves. I suddenly noticed, too, that a holly tree that I cut down in the summer had sprouted about 300 succors (is that how you spell it?) that were shooting about 3 feet toward the sky. Good thing I caught that, before the brambles and stickers surround my house, which I feel like I seldom leave, and turn me into a lonely princess. I mowed them down promptly. Perhaps I will make a holly wreath or two. Send to Bonnie with some fall leaves maybe.