When I was in high school, my father cut down several trees in the back yard. For years afterward, he talked about cutting them up into small logs for firewood, but instead the trees rotted away on the ground, eventually becoming overgrown with weeds.

One summer, these little plants sprouted on top of a rotting log. I thought they looked like a tiny forest! They died over the winter and did not regrow the next summer.

This is a Polaroid Image Transfer.

Late 1990s