21 August 2023

Living Rocks

Great Brook Farm State Park, Massachusetts

Rocks, the first to come...
  Can I imagine how this must have looked some 10,000 years into the past,
   at the time when glaciers melted and rocks stayed ?

  Harsh, lifeless.

  And then lichens and mosses came,  
      the foremost,
    daringly animated creators of the new world.

  Harsh, buoyant.

    On these same rocks, no way I can miss them...  

Great Brook Farm: ... rocks, the first to come...

Great Brook Farm: ... how this must have looked 10,000 years into the past?...

Great Brook Farm: ... and then the lichens came...

Great Brook Farm: ... a distant relatives of fungi...

Great Brook Farm: ... the foremost...

Great Brook Farm: ... daringly animated creators of the new world...

Great Brook Farm: ... buoyantly easing harsh edges...

Great Brook Farm: ... no way I can miss them...

Great Brook Farm: ... among the trees...