Life and death - The circle of life in a picture!

Hi everybody,

I received the invitation to post something on a new community called Petals - about which you can find something more by clicking on the link - run by @sardrt and @adrianobalan.

I do not have a particular passion for flowers, though I really like them. I do have some nice flower shots I've taken in the last years and I would like to share this one with you. It will not be a true masterpiece but, in my humble opinion, there's a deep meaning behind this simple pic.

It's really fascinating how nature can always find its space even in our overcrowded and polluted cities. There's a documentary I've watched a few years ago on Youtube about how nature would take back the earth after a cataclysm. All cities have been destroyed, not a single human being alive. Just crumbling buildings and memories of what our civilization realized in its short history.

Nature was just watching, without saying a word, waiting for the right moment to rise from the ground. Few blades of grass start rising out of the blue from the tile's cracks of an old pavement. Moss and mushrooms spring everywhere, the green color replaces cities' grey walls. It's another world filled up with new-old shades. Colors, the real ones, have been forgotten under tons of concrete.

This picture is particularly evocative for me: there's an old tree trunk, abandoned on the sidewalk. A few decades ago was probably one of the tallest in the street, now it's just a dry, old tree base. Kind of a gravestone if you like to see it in this way.

Another round in the circle of life has been made and now, this anonymous piece of wood with ancient roots has turned into a flower pot. From being alive to becoming a life container. From being generated to generating and hosting life.

Nothing will be ever destroyed, we just don't know what shape we'll all have in the next future.

NOTE

- All pictures are exclusive property of the author.

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