Crack Weeds Take On Our World
Admire the plants growing out of cracks in the sidewalk even as they demolish it, little by little.
You could argue that the pretty violets I saw growing out of the crack between the sidewalk and the wall of a house on Locust Street are doing their best to rip up the pavement and tear down the wall behind them. The same goes for the dandelion a couple feet away, plunging its taproot down into the soil below the concrete and, as it expands with new cel…
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