Hello Dear SuperForesters!
As a city-dweller, one of the things that never fails to make my heart take a tiny leap is seeing plantlife making itself a home, against the odds and perhaps against our efforts. I wanted to share one of those tiny-leap moments I experienced this weekend:
I have a flat roof outside the bedroom in my flat (I refer to it, laughingly, as my “terrace”) and when the sun shines, I like to take breakfast out there. This weekend, the sun shone! I breakfasted outside, and looking about the unguarded, unseen landscape of lead and slate that forms the backside of these buildings, I glanced sideways – to the inaccessible, uncultivated roof nearby:
I found it kind of glorious – you can’t see (thanks to my astonishingly bad photography skillz) but there were tiny white flowers growing in the inexplicable carpet of moss and leaves. It appealed to the against-the-odds triumph of plantlife and Secret Garden aspects of my psyche. How much I wanted to scale the blackened drainpipe between our oases and pad barefoot in it? A lot, but I’m happy just to know it’s there, untouched.
Like SuperForester Jaell, I hope we’re all looking around and looking closely to find the quirky things in our space – even right next door can surprise you.
Love
P
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