Underfoot and Underloved

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Alongside of the carport and close by the barbecue smoker is a tangle of little plants, little plants with big leaves and bigger plants with smaller leaves. There are flowers in there, too. Blue-purple flowers of one kind and of a size, tiny red flowers of some other kind. Green stems are there, and red stems are hanging around, probably just because they wanted to join the crowd. You never know but what there may be a worm or a snake or a snake and a worm down there under all of this stuff. I wondered, if there is a worm and a snake, when they look up, do they see the same amount of beauty in that tangled mess that I see when I look down. I wonder. There's probably a lesson in this. If there is a lesson, it may be teaching us to see the good in what is around us and to disregard what we might often think of as being a real mess. I guess that the fact is, sometimes it really is a mess that we are seeing - and sometimes it is a sight really worth looking at. Sometimes. * * * * * * * * * * Images source: Gus Kilthau * * * * * * * * * *