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These sunflowers are all over the roadsides in Northern New Mexico. They grow despite in abundance despite the efforts of the greedy skies above, who rarely deign to shower them with the water they need. Dogged plants.
Light is a funny thing. It never stays in the same place, and it constantly broadcasts outward.
Perhaps we too, should learn a lesson from the light, and stretch ever outwards into the world instead of treading inward.
I don't go cutting down any trees that I don't have to, but this was one of the three small dogwoods I did have to cut down as a result of new construction at our house. I was impressed to see that it's not giving up so easily. But I expect to win in the end as this stump will soon be ground to mulch.