Reach for the sun.

I like plants. They’re happy to just sit there and do their own thing. These are some that grow in my garden. They get plenty of sunlight.

There’s a house on my street. It has trees at the front, and as you can see, there’s a very small, narrow growing space under the trees.

The house is for sale, and the owners want some colour at the front to make it more attractive, so they planted some flowers in containers. You can see one of the containers below.

However, the trees make the space dark, and the flowers can’t get enough sunlight. That means the plants are stunted, which means they don’t grow very high. But as you can see above, they still grow and refuse to die. Life will find a way.

And to prove that point, here’s another photo I took beside a very busy road. 

When I was crossing the road, I looked down and saw this plant happily growing at the side of the road. It’s a lettuce! Nobody planted it there. The wind blew a seed and it put down roots. And here it is, growing happily. As I said before, life will find a way.

BTW, the title of this post is Reach for the sun because plants need sunlight to grow, but there are two other phrases in English: reach for the moon and reach for the stars. One phrase has a positive meaning and the other one is less positive. Follow the links to find out which is which.