MenoAZering; O=Orb

For April, I'm participating in #BlogchatterA2Z, and you will find original images created by me and some ramblings to go with them. I will capitalise words that begin with the featured letter (on first use only). Let me know what you think of the pics, words, or both in the comments! For more of this madness, you can visit Blogchatter.

Where to OPEN a post on the letter O? With the perhaps OBVIOUS reference to the planet upon which we reside. This lustrous, OPULENT, generous ORB of such inordinate beauty and surprise. A place that is so precious as to have given forth life. It is not just the ORDINARY life of earth and water, microbes and OOZE, but ever more complex forms leading up to the extra-ordinary, sentient beings that are a virus upon its skin. 

Seen under the microscope of the cosmos, these beings are a wonderment, capable of OUTSTANDING works of art, architecture, mechanics, various sciences, and the ability to imagine. The ability to comprehend the abstract.

Seen in the light of their connection to their surroundings and their effect upon those environs, they are a pox upon the earth. Their incredible imagination seems incapable of comprehending living with instead of against the natural substratum. They are OBNOXIOUS... indeed, they might be classified as noxious weeds, injurious to the wellbeing of everything around them. Including others of their own kingdom, albeit of a different class, order, family, genus, species, subspecies, or race. In fact, often because...

As this exceptional planet ORBITS its sun, one of a gazillion other suns, at the centre of a system viewed from the centre of the cosmos in which it sits, one of a gazillion other systems - a single tree in an endless forest - is anything that OCCURS upon it, this small gemstone orb, of any import at all...?