February 10, 2023
Two days into no energy and no warmth, with shattered bushes making a harmful impediment course round our home, and all this coming simply two years after Snowpocalypse, I packed a bag, picked up Mother and her canine from her chilly, darkish condo, and headed to Houston to stick with household just a few days. What an excellent psychological well being choice that was! Not solely from seeing household and having fun with the comforts of electrical energy, however visiting the majestic, 400-year-old dwell oaks at Becks Prime (the Augusta Dr. location) once more.
Ahhh, unbroken bushes in all their glory!
I first blogged about these unbelievable bushes final August. This time, in early February, I observed ferns colonizing the bushes’ snaking, horizontal limbs. I think about they’re cool-weather vegetation, exhibiting up in winter and going dormant in summer season.
The ferns add a inexperienced, hanging-garden impact to the magnificent bushes. Replace: They’re resurrection ferns (Pleopeltis polypodioides). Due to Pam (on Fb) and James (within the feedback) for the ID.
As we sat beneath them, having fun with our lunch, a decided little customer pulled up a seat subsequent to ours, and snagged a fry.
We couldn’t begrudge him. It was too stunning a day, and we had been embraced by these stunning bushes.
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