America’s first major climate law was just passed. I’m hopeful, for the first time in a long while, that maybe we can get our act together on the state of the earth. To celebrate, I thought we could all take a long drink off this photograph from Brad Temkin’s Rooftop series.

Atop a civic building in Chicago, wildflowers send their spires up to greet the steel giants. A good third of the view at this elevation is a tangled meadow. The black eyed susan and the Marina City building get equal billing. I love this garden for its unbridled spread, plants doing what they do, taking the stormwater for their own, claiming the right to grow.

-Lisa Woodward