Seeing Versus Looking

 I have always like walking or biking on ground that is half-mouldering leaves.  I don't know why.  Perhaps it is because so many years in western states has turned leaves into exotic, hard-to-find miracles of nature.

But what about the opposite: when dirt becomes leaves?  You could almost think of crypto-biotic soil as an example of that.  But I was thinking of the paper-thin lamellas of sedimentary rock that are found where I am currently camping in central Utah. Here is one that is living dangerously:

Let's look at one without the dog:

At times you see thin layers somewhat earlier in their natural history. (Not really.  But it is fun to think so.)

Look for the diving board in the right-center of the photo.

Maybe this sort of things seems interesting because it stimulates a human being to imagine the inorganic as organic, the static as the moving, the lifeless as the living.  After all, how much looking at stuff does a human being need?  At some point they must "see" something for it to remain interesting.