What is this strange alien thing? Seems like some kind of parasitic plant to me, like Indian Pipe, but I've never seen this one before. I found it while hiking in the Uwharrie Mountains in North Carolina yesterday, December 2. It has been very wet late
Oftentimes, it takes us buckets of tears, sweat and (literally) blood before we achieve what we want in life. But so long as it means waking up the next day to a morning as majestic and picturesque as this, I would not mind fighting till I shed the last b