- An early morning walk through a honey mesquite grove is full of surprises. — Photos by Pat Bean
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” Chinese proverb
Travels With Maggie
I had barely stepped onto the trail before I heard a sort of screeching sound, which had me looking for a bird as its most likely source. I soon realized I was wrong.
It was the trees creaking with the wind. And this nature trail I was following was simply a mesquite grove with little else going for it, I concluded. Wrong again.
Just about the same time I decided the talking trees weren’t really all that eerie, I began seeing other bits of nature sharing the mesquite tree grove.
Cactus coming to life after the winter, purple thistle dotting the landscape, and numerous other plants that sadly I didn’t have a name for.
It was a short trail that ended way too soon.
The photos I took along the way, meanwhile, will remind me not to draw conclusions before seeing the evidence.
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