I normally do not approve of graffiti. Sure, some people can make it look neat, but it mucks up private property and natural features and just plain is inconsiderate.

However, on a recent walk by the Potomac River, I saw a bit of graffiti that caught my interest. There were a few uplifting ones scrawled on the jagged rocks along the river: "Smile at someone. It might make their day." and so forth. But the one that begged to be photographed was this.

Admittedly, someone scrawled it on a geologic feature in a natural area. Not cool. Yet something about the crumbling rock, the dead leaves, the plants working their way through the cracks, made the graffiti work in an artistic sense. Possibly even philosophically.

Putting this under regular photography because I only did minimal color and contrast tweaking in Corel Photo-Paint.