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| Courageous pioneer or foolhardy adventurer? |
I admire things and creatures that manage to survive despite
the odds being stacked against them!
Today I spent a happy lunch-break wandering around town eating ice-cream
and taking photos of things that managed to survive where they shouldn’t have.
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| Long distance shot of the dandelion |
Like the solitary dandelion in the lawn of the college
quad! Mown almost every day and tended
by a man full-time devoted to keeping the grass free of weeds and mosses and in
tip top form, and yet invaded by a single dandelion seed, undaunted by his
chemicals and lawn-cutting implements.
You will notice that the dandelion is growing very low to the ground,
its prouder cousins having been decapitated long ago. I am sure there is a moral here somewhere!
I also like the numerous little grasses and flowers that
grow in the most unpromising cracks and crevices, like in the dirt of a street
or a tiny hole in a wall, or even on top of a metal manhole cover.
And there are of course The Dinosaurs! They have been there since time immemorial,
well since 1974/84. For some unknown
reason The Authorities never removed them.
The White Dinosaur was there first, and next to it is written, ‘Remember
what happened to the dinosaurs!’ Ten
years later, mysteriously, just a few feet to the right of the White Dinosaur,
another, blue one, appeared, with the inscription, ‘I did, and look what
happened to me!’ So now there are two
dinosaurs graffitically straddling the outer wall of the college, and no one
has tried to remove either of them. Pretty amazing
really, if you think about it.
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| I would have taken more photos, but cars were in the way; maybe some other time |
