Tenacious

After dinner and massage several of us watch a baseball game that's going on at the school. At the end of the evening a small group of us walk down the street to see one of the waterfalls - it's one I've never seen before and it's pretty big. As we get closer we can feel a strong, misty breeze coming off the falls. I check out the rock walls which look to be loose shale. It's amazing that there is so much life in the smallest cracks and crevasses.

There are tiny outcroppings on which tiny plants are growing. A three inch fern which looks like a miniature model of a real fern appears to be growing out of moss which has found a place to grow on the edge of a loose rock. The tiny plant seems to have seeded, grown and prospered (albeit in miniature) with the tiniest of anchors! Life here appears to be incredibly bold and tenacious, growing and surviving with only the slightest encouragement.