The bottom one is a thistle. There are a dozen or so common varieties, and without the flowers it's hard to tell them apart, but all are very prickly and unpleasant. They have a deep tap root and are a difficult weed to eradicate unless you use herbicide on them. RoundUp (glyphosate) does work. So does digging them out, if you are careful to get most of the root. The thistle is the national flower of Scotland. Prickly, tenacious, and tough. Makes sense.
I think it's true that those "ROW" markers have something to do with right of way. Not necessarily just for roads, but the right of foot traffic to pass over the land so marked, in spite of the fact that it is private property. We have one at the corner of our five acres and there's a corresponding one across the road. I'd wager a guess that they were put in during the Depression, perhaps by some NRA project or other.
I believe it means Right Of Way. For some reason on state highways, they mark the boundry of state property adjacent to private property. As a matter of fact, the village of Boys Town has them along US Highway 6 or West Dodge Road.
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I think it's true that those "ROW" markers have something to do with right of way. Not necessarily just for roads, but the right of foot traffic to pass over the land so marked, in spite of the fact that it is private property. We have one at the corner of our five acres and there's a corresponding one across the road. I'd wager a guess that they were put in during the Depression, perhaps by some NRA project or other.
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I also see a bunch of burdock beginning to appear. That stuff is the worst, since it gets into everything.
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