It's been raining like crazy every day for a week, and we noticed that water coming off the roof was not running though the evestrough but right over the side. Today the sun shone fitfully, and I prodded my husband Wayne to check out the situation, with the promise that I wouldn't make him do anything else for the rest of the day. (A hard promise to keep!)
He climbed to the top of the ladder only to discover a weed growing out of the seam of a tubular evestrough!
After much unscrewing of sections of evestrough, he discovered the insides were packed full of dead leaves, evergreen needles, and bits of roof. It had decomposed int
o lovely dark compost that was fertile territory for this weed.And of course the compost was blocking the rain from going down where it needed to go.
I felt a bit of a pang as I dug out the weed and tossed it away. Against all odds, this plant sprang from a seed that just happened to end up in a section of sealed evestroughing that separated enough to provide some light. This is a pretty inhospitable enviroment, even for a weed. Yet after this brave effort, it is still at our mercy. It's not easy being green.
Hi Heidi: plants are an amazing thing - I've seen them sprouting from all sorts of impossible places. When we all disappear plants will take over the earth again, I'm sure. Weather looks pretty good on the island still:)
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