Day 37: Aliens have landed!

Milkweed pods.  The wispy sinews and tight clusters of seeds within crispy husks are living sculptures.  I love to photograph them, but they also remind me of alien creatures.  When I was a girl, one of the most terrifying science fiction films of the 1950s was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."  Giant pods produced replicas of human beings that replaced people while they slept.

Those movies of the 50s had a huge influence on me and directed me toward more recent and benign alien beings in Smallville and Star Trek NG and the more malevolent Cylons on Battlestar Galactica.  Today on our walk, I photographed a little green Martian that occupies a garden on Liberty Street.   What a great sense of humor that gardner has!  Maybe she agrees with me.  I don't think it's logical to assume that we are the only living, intelligent beings in the cosmos.