Let there be water 🌏

Dear reader, the walk I just took found me mesmerised by endless birdsong and mysterious shrubbery. It's funny how we eat them, wear them, build with them, and cure with them, yet we walk past them thanklessly. Plant life.

Spring is a welcome change, with the Sun beaming just round from the corner of my eye, as I visually chase small brown birds up the tree, guided by their prolific tweeting.

We'd assume the Sun, the sky clock that these plants follow, is the starter of life, but some news this week gave me pause. Water, too, is the basis for life. And water on Earth could be billions of years older than our Sun.

Life began in the water. The Sun is an activator for all these plants that guide their activities by it year-round. How amazing to think that the water preceded the light, and lay in waiting to be brought to life. I snapped a pic of one of those unthanked shrubs whose brave buds have emerged, to identify it in an app. One of the FAQs asked about its lifespan.

400 years

Wow. Long. I wondered in that moment whether I would be conducting myself differently if I thought my lifespan was 400 years. Nope, the quick answer came.

What had that shrub witnessed over centuries? I kept on walking. There was so much to uncover. On an undistinguished street, with nothing in particular to see, I could not stop seeing new things.

I'd have to look closer, bend a little. Look from under my glasses. Hope my camera could capture it. On a centimetre-long patch, a little universe. Tempt me away from the grey roads, and towards the side shows.

What are these mushroomy satellite dishes?

Have a sprouty time 🌺 Happy Mother Nature Day!