Michael Hillman relates an interesting story about how he and his wife stopped mowing their lawn -- I mean just plain stopped, cold turkey, and for good! "By the end of six weeks, the lawn had begun to take on a wild, disheveled look, the sort of look an abandoned house has," writes Michael. Just what the neighbors don't want to see, right: meadows springing up around the neighborhood, where well-manicured lawns used to be? This story presents an interesting case study of lawns becoming meadows, and it's a story with a happy ending. In looking at their pictures, though, I must say that the home in question appears to be located in a rural setting. It might be tougher to get away with this in suburbia!