signs of struggle

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[OT from cottage renovations]

more from a week ago ... 

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upper field

the fields to the SE of the Grove have lain fallow since the property was conveyed to a developer, during which time opportunistic plant invaders have been doing their best to turn it into something else.  thickets and overgrowth, with shelter for trees which if they can poke through the low canopy (still only a metre or two high) would transform into scrub woods with undergrowth.  one need not expect the process to get very far along in that direction before the earthmoving equipment shows up to begin the grading and scraping that will undo it all in the name of progress.  and profits. 

sapling and vine are locked here in struggle, with sharp thorns to poke and twisting tendrils to choke; one that both will lose because their efforts are directed at each other without regard to the nature and source of the real threat they both face. 

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if we are fortunate, a part of one of the fields (though none of the woods) might be retained as legacy open space.  exactly how that might work out is presently a matter of some local controversy.