I work hard at taking shit photography, I think I hit the mark every time.

I agree, the earth does what it does, as it's done for many millions of years, but in the shirt time humans have been around and most recently in the last (almost) 200 years since the industrial revolution we have accelerated and skewed the natural cycle of the plant. Sad really, but humans have a way of doing such things I guess, to each other and the planet.