My roots

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Grandma

''Maybe you are searching among the branches , for what only appears in the roots.'' Rumi

roots שד' הנביאים, Tel-Aviv. Added to Cream of the Crop group as my most favorited. (it is also my "most interesting" one).

The microbial community in the ground is as important as the one in our guts.

This gnarled "Roots of Life" tree photography is a testament to the awesomeness of nature. Camping as much as I do, I see a lot of trees all over the country. My favorite by far are the big old gnarled root trees in the southern U.S. and this is my favorite of those I saw. This tree was right next to our campsite and every day I would go out and just examine its roots, crevasses, shadows. The root exposure was likely due to the erosion of the dirt around the tree or an unfortunate series of…