A British Buzz Cut?

Each Spring, I travel to central Florida to photograph the latest crop of lawn mowers being tested by Consumer Reports Magazine. It is a shoot I look forward to. The techies - usually three great guys who are actually engineers - from the magazine come south from New York and I fly in from Arizona. Long days but great people. Well, to my surprise the British equivalent to America's Consumer Report made arrangements to test Euro mowers at the Florida site. On my first day on site, I bumped into the two British bloats unloading their Euro mowers from a rental truck. I wandered over to introduce myself midday, and these guys must have saw my dropped jaw from a kilometer away! There they were testing this contraption with NO wheels cutting a lush green field of grass. Holy Bermuda Batman, how can this thing actually work without wheels? Well, it did. It's an English made electric mower and it simply hovers. A little pressure on the handles and the elevation changes. Fascinating. The Brits explained that most grassy yards in England are very small plots; maybe 20x20 feet. Not much grass grows in that confined space. We Americans, well at least this one, always envision huge estates with endless fields of grass. Not so, say these grass cutting professionals. I offered to purchase this floating mower once they were done testing, but international law required they bring the contraption back to England. I would have loved to bring this thing back to Nowhere.

Life Is Good when the sweet smell of freshly cut grass fills the air.