My Wife and I Went on Vacation for 10 Days—When We Returned, We Discovered Something Unexpected in the Bathroom

that moisture can become an attractive target. The root does not need to understand the layout of the room; it simply continues growing toward the conditions that support it.

The thin strands represented the advancing ends of that process. Their fine structure allowed them to enter places that a thicker root could not immediately reach.

As the roots continue reading …