{This is a response to Friday Fictioneers. This picture tickled me, partially because my husband is a traffic engineer, and our conversations often drift toward traffic circles. I was also struck by how the bushes looked like crouching figures. Happy Thanksgiving and bon appetit, everyone!}
They huddled round the campfire, careful not to singe their delicate leaves.
The extermination was complete.
Now, with their new, evolved human-mimicry, the Plantoids could do everything the Dominant Species used to do. Only better. Leaving behind humanity’s pesky greed. And its irresponsible accumulation. And waste.
Such fragrant bodies! They would soon decompose–in Plant Time, that is. Rich foodstuffs, for a new Green Generation, composed entirely of roaming botanicals.
Even fast-climbing Ivies seemed Neanderthals, now.
How fitting! To celebrate Thanksgiving, at the dawn of the Age of Botanical-Transport! And here, of all places!
In the center of a roundabout.
An interesting and intriguing perspective on this one. I imagine a b-movie title “The Day the Plants Ruled”! Great one!
Yes, definitely in that genre! After all, they made The creature from the black lagoon right around the corner. A proud tradition of “b”grade movies by or starring Florida Man. 😊
New age of planetoid is beginning. They give thanks by exterminating every trace of humans in a campfire!
Thanks abjhit. I think the mobile, human-shaped plants are consuming the corpses of the human race, while sitting by a fire made of sticks of their less “evolved” fellow plants. Happy Thanksgiving!😊
All hail the Plantoids! I wonder how long it will be before they start succumbing to human vices, though…
Good question, Liz.
I guess nature was around before we invaded earth – as they say, what comes around goes around!
Here’s my tale!
I guess the point of adaptation in evolution is to help ensure each species’ survival.
In this case its more like a whole biological kingdom under threat, reacting with a set of successful random adaptations.
The fact that this happens to wipe out the very species that threatens them is incidental, other than the fact that it results in conditions more amenable to the kingdom’s survival.
Minor appurtenances of Earth which we have become accustomed to (like oxygen) depend on plants’ survival. What, exactly, depends on the survival of man?
Maybe man should stop pitting himself against Nature to the point that Nature must fight back. We don’t want to be perceived, as overstaying our welcome. 😊. Sorry for the sermon!
Sermon gratefully received Andrea!
Seems to be a serious upgrade over pushing daisies …
Well done, you!
Thanks Na’ama!
Will the moss stay under control, if not the other plants may turn to it for fertiliser when us humans are all used up.
I do believe nature will re-take control of this planet. Interesting take, Andrea.
Thanks Dale. And heaven help us when it does!
Oh we’ll all be long gone before that happens…
I was using the royal we…humanity I mean. 😊
Of course. As was I…
How idyllic, I have no doubt nature will one day inherit the earth from us and reclaim the roundabouts.
Not much is as meek as Nature (as in, the meek shall inherit the Earth) unless of course, you get her on a day when she is showing her fury!
Proof that Earth will survive, even if we don’t!
One would hope. But watching evolutionary documentaries will tell us, that the Earth was not always as pleasant a place to live, as it is now!
Interesting take on the prompt. I really hope those planetoids manage to avoid the temptations of our consumer society.
The plantoids seem much more interested in sunshine and manure. But who know? Perhaps taking the shape of humans will cause them to act more human. They are burning their brethren after all, to make that fire. Perhaps as in Animal Farm, some plants are more equal than others! Thanks Penny!
I like the idea that the plants use dead humans as fertiliser.
Karma rocks.
Yup. Quite a feast to celebrate Thansgiving. 😊
Dear Andrea,
So your husband’s one of the people I can blame for roundabouts. 😉 Let’s hope the plants are more sane than their human predecessors. Imaginative story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle! Yes his fingerprints are all over them in this area. Only when they are appropriate and solve a problem, of course. 😊
Roundabouts are cool, m’lady, when you understand how to use them!
I have to agree, but the Arc de Triomphe in Paris scares me. Nice photo CE!