Kael

July 20 View post because tree roots are cool and I like them. Particularly interesting are unexpected shapes, tenacity over urban construction as they take over sidewalks, kind and sensible humans building sidewalks around them to let them be, and when they stick out far from where you might expect in different ways. Plant and animal life, and fungi, shelter themselves within the crevices half hidden. I remember teaching a toddler what roots are for "up up up up up and down down down" he said, as the roots carry water and earth and the leaves carry sun. Trees are mysterious and tenacious. They were here before us and will outlast us. It is no wonder we humans talk metaphorically abou