Friday, March 11, 2022

Tenacious twine

Holding on for dear life
London, ON
March 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram


There's something special about ivy.

It grows in places that are normally hostile to natural life, roots stuck deep in the shadowy cracks, branches and shoots clinging tenaciously along precarious, often crumbling surfaces.

It shouldn't survive. Not in this forgotten, graffiti-covered, frozen alleyway. Not anywhere, frankly.

Yet it does. Thrive, even.

If this seemingly frail-looking plant can prevail despite it all, I'm thinking the rest of us can, as well.

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Related:
Clinging to life, February 2019
Ivy on Kipps Lane, January 2018
Ivy - dead and alive, November 2005


1 comment:

Tabor said...

It is considered a nasty invasive here as it hurts trees and covers the ground.