She Will Take It Back / by sam taylor

She Will Take It Back

Good Friday Afternoon!

Through all of this “closing down” its been fascinating to watch as folks realize that nature comes back very quickly when we quit messing around. Critters in the streets of big cities, clean air and water in places that are historically known for smog and polluted rivers.

For us, we hate the trash, and we hate the pollution, but if they stop, and the soil will support plants, this little “jungle” that we live in will take over quickly. I don’t know how many places we’ve been to - abandoned towns, abandoned parks, and if you didn’t have an older map or historic photos, you’d never know - it’s all gone.

Talking with some of my botanist friends, our beautiful woodland spring flowers, such as trilliums and bluebells, take a long time to reproduce - like 5-7 years from seed to flower. So maybe this tire has been here a long time. But whatever else was here? No idea. She’s already taken it back.

Hope folks have a great weekend!