Think Spring... Graffiti, That Is

The signs are everywhere: from the buds on the trees to the sudden whiff of warm breeze and patches of green grass.

And now, even that age-old scourge — graffiti, also known as "tagging" — has become yet another harbinger of spring.

Spotted at two area eyesores along the Queens-Nassau county border are almost identical flourishes in black paint that at second or third-glance resemble a kind of graffiti 'daisy.'

"It's kind of pretty," said Vicki, a Great Neck commuter waiting for an MTA bus in front of 1 Northern Boulevard, a boarded-up former liquor store that now sports a single spray-painted black 'flower.' 

Only a few short blocks away, at the site of a dormant construction site at 254-04 West End Drive in Little Neck, are three more tags of roughly the same size and shape adorning what used to be the side yard of a two-story Tudor home pulled down last October.

So there we have it: two 'troubled' area properties, subject to destruction both man-made and (more or less) natural, both adorned with a symbol of rebirth, beauty and hope. 

What do you think? Are these 'flower' tags meant to convey some kind of message, or are they just another sign of blight on the neighborhood?