No Rain, Green Anyway
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| Cottonwoods along wash near Sam Nail Ranch |
Three weeks ago the only spring green to be seen at Big Bend was on the cottonwood trees, which had only lost the last of their tangerine leaves two months earlier. (In Maine the trees are leafless for seven months!) These cottonwoods were sprawled in snaky washes like green apple lollipops. The effect on the landscape after so much brown and beige was startling. Read the rest of this entry »
