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Many years ago, I used to drive between Austin, Texas and Abilene, Texas. I shared an apartment with a colleague throughout the work week in Austin and would drive to and from my wife's and my home in Abilene at the beginnings and endings of the weekends.
Along the highway were beautiful, grand old, Southern Live Oaks like in the photograph posted by Kitsuna. Watching these trees as I would drive along made me think of how human life is similar to the lives of these gorgeous trees.
We humans struggle with situations that are beyond our control just as the Southern Live Oaks struggle with rocky soil that is beyond their control. We human beings grow through the challenges and confusions of life just as do the Southern Live Oaks.
Using the cards that each one of us humans has been personally dealt, we human beings experience our day-to-day existences. The Southern Live Oaks use their drawn cards too.
I can "see" us human beings twisting our limbs as we push forward into the sky of life just as the Southern Live Oaks twist their ways up into the sky. The pushing of both is based upon their respective "root systems" in the ground, invisible and in secret.
Just like the Southern Live Oaks, we human beings also have developed "roots" from uncontrollable and unseen adversities, from having perceived the positive within the negative. Like us humans, the Southern Live Oaks take advantage of their situations and become beautiful creatures just as do we.
Lots of geometric shapes in your photo, VictorR.
These are paper wasps. They have been building a nest right above our back door for many years. Lots of (human) traffic in and out of that door. Never been a problem.
Will your field guide be available for purchase?
This is my lowest weight in 33 years.
Wowee! It wouldn't be good for me to do that. (I'm in my thirties.)
By the way, were you holding your phone at the time?
Nope. Nekkid and careful to make sure it wasn't in the reflection on the glass surface of the scale.
WOW, oh wow!
No insect in this one?
Nope. Just the early morning sunlight.
... because I already put a beetle-on-the-flowers photo on my profile.
". . . .for the beauty of the earth. . . ."
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