Life Never Stops Trying

Life doesn't always thrive.  It doesn't always succeed.  In fact, most of the time it fails.  But it never stops trying.  Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.  The urban landscape is a new one, and a challenging one, but a landscape none-the-less.

I found a few urban landscape pioneers, some succeeding more than others, under the 360 bridge at Spicewood Springs Road. 

 

I don't know what these abandoned holes were originally for, but they filled with soil, and now life is trying them out.  And the plant below is exploring the place where concrete and asphalt don't quite meet.

 

This one just got lucky.  It has an edge over plants where tires are more likely to tread.  I find myself rooting for it.  (No pun intended.)

But sometimes, you're just in the wrong place.  Men come and kill you, without even seeing you.  It's important to know where the underground sewer line is.

Even when concrete has filled a hole with a column, there is a crack in everything.  That's how the life gets in.