In a rather of random act of intentional discovery, I decided to see what Mother Nature might yield up to me on a simple stroll through my yard. My investigation was motivated by an article that I had recently read about "affordances." The psychologist James J. Gibson first introduced the term in 1977. An affordance is the possibility of an action on an object in the environment or an object's "action possibilities." Australian Landscape Architect, Elizabeth Cummins, says "Th