Home Alone

the softest word.

good god.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

“Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

ATONEMENT (2007)

MR. MALCOLM’S LIST (2022)

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019)

SANDITON (2019 - 2023)

ANNE WITH AN E (2017 - 2019)

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)

LITTLE WOMEN (2019)

SISSI - THE FATEFUL YEARS OF AN EMPRESS (1957)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)