In the prehistoric garden...

 

Dance, O dragonflies,
In your world
of the setting sun.
(poet unknown) 

Which arrived on land first? Plant or animal?  It's hard to imagine the first vegetation.  Green, like now, or perhaps, purple?  What was the atmosphere like?  I can only visualize giant rainforests, filled with giant insects.  Where there any tiny lizards at the same time that the monstrous ones roamed the earth?  

My backyard garden, neglected once again because of my spring illness, is my little plant kingdom.  It would be interesting to take a course on the life of plants, and to be able to trace the evolution of each plant that grows here now.

Once, quite a while ago, I studied geology - my only science course, which was mandatory, even though I was going into the humanities.  I am so glad I did take it, too.  I've had this fascination with dinosaurs ever since.  I was in the theatre when they released Jurassic Park, and it is one of the movies I watch every summer.   Yes, I know all about chaos theory, but there really is this part of me that would love it if they could bring those dinosaurs back!