what i love about this is not just the festively curled leaves (although i love them too). what i really love is that the whole composition is made possible by a vine that twirled about the stem of a sapling, and happened, in its twining, to wrap a stem of grass up against the straight, young tree. that’s not one stem there. it’s three stems. and without both the vine and the support of the sapling, the grass would long ago have broken and bent. i know. it’s not as exciting as netflix. but come on. it’s pretty cool.

winter prairie grass leaves

grass lake, saint paul, minneosta

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