Quiet war, or leaving the swamp

Greetings, friends!

More recently, we became participants in a quiet war, when you can’t hear the volleys of guns, but there are emotional experiences.

In nature, such a war takes place constantly.

This is a war over territories and food chains.

An example of such a quiet war is the spread of lichens, the catalyst of which is the wet climate of swamps.

The enemy cannot come, just like that. For him, some conditions were created, the doors opened, and the enemy appeared on our territory.

But, in nature, it looks beautiful. There are no insults and flags, there, one harmony will be replaced, another.

Old wood, rusty metal wire and lichen look harmonious.

Some sections of the colony of lichen look particularly aggressive. Apparently, here, he was especially hungry.

Apparently, here, the wood gave a decisive rebuff to the lichen. He stopped crawling in breadth, but, began to increase in volume in height.

The war, expanded the front line, the lichen moved to neighboring trees.

This is a tragedy, the tears of which we do not see, but we like to look at the beauty of what is happening.

War does not look at age. Everyone suffers, both young and old.

But, unlike these trees, we were able to open the gate and leave the territory of the wet swamp.

You can not relax, there are many other enemies, hungry and aggressive.

They change shape, change color, but their task is to absorb the wood.

I hope that the Hive does not look like such a tree trunk.

Photos taken with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 camera
I edited a photo in the program Photo-Director, which I also installed on my smartphone.

Author @barski
Ukraine