The day after I took this photo I walked past the mother orca and her baby again and watched two men carefully trimming the plants to give them a neat and tidy, smooth look.
Each May long weekend the mother orca with her baby, riding on the crest of a wave, magically appears. It is gone sometime in October. A little sign nearby explains that this work of art is made up of about 10,000 plants.
Between May and October thousands of tourists (and locals like me) take photos of these two figures. I see four different kinds of plants. Each plant individually is probably nice to look at, but fairly insignificant as a plant—just grasses and leaves. But 10,000 of them together become a major tourist draw. In fact, so many people are fascinated with this that unless I walk past it early in the morning, there is not much chance of getting a shot without people in it.
Each individual has a part to play in the formation of a beautiful creation.
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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