Grass (2)

In the backyard ...
Holmberg Open Space, Boulder County Colorado, September 1999

© 2000 Elke Edwards; Fujichrome Sensia 100

"More than all other things here, grasses are the offspring of the wind, the power the helps evaporation equal preciptitation to the detriment of trees, the power that breaks off leaves and branches, shakes crowns and rigid trunks to tear roots and disrupt transpiration, respiration, nutrient assimilation. But grasses before the wind bend and straighten, and bend and keep their vital parts underground, and, come into season, they release their germ, spikelets, and seeds to the wind, the invisible sea that in this place must carry the code, the directions from the unfaced god ..."

--William Least-Heat Moon, PrairyErth

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