Bamboo

Day 32: The old Eatonville Dispatch building stands abandoned now, its yellow and blue paint peeling and fading, and this stand of bamboo seems determined to take over the sidewalk from its stronghold in a small unpaved square beside the door. It is an ornamental variety common in garden stores, reputed to be non-invasive given a gardener's reasonable efforts to control it. No such gardener exists here. Its roots have begun to erode the concrete at the edges of its confines and a few pioneer tendrils are sprouting in the cracks. Its strength is to be admired, along with its tenacity.