it was hot today. sort of suck-the-life-out-of-you hot. we have not used our air conditioner all summer so to keep the streak going, we opted to use will power today, rather than air conditioning. which means very little truly productive work got done. i don’t know about you, but my mind melts above a certain threshold of heat and humidity. so when the leaves of this little unidentified weed in my backyard caught my attention, i knew i didn’t have it in me to search any farther. i sighed and laughed both–is this really all i have energy for? a tiny nondescript weed from the backyard? but now the sun is going down, and the air is cooling, and my little weed doesn’t look so plain to me. if it hadn’t been so hot today, i would have been more ambitious, and missed this shot. constraints are good.

little leaves from an unidentified weed

saint paul, minnesota