I did not want to mow down the chicory growing on the two foot wide strip of land between our fence and road.  We had cut the lawn all summer until recently.  I noted a row almost an hundred feet long of blue flowers.  The plants were about two and half feet high.  It looked as if we planted them.  I never paid much attention to chicory before.  And I know the plant is a weed found everywhere.  Nevertheless, the row of blue flowers were beautiful.  Both my wife and I agreed to leave them alone.