Back to Beck’s majestic live oaks

Two days into nary powerfulness and nary heat, with shattered trees making a unsafe obstacle people astir our house, and each this coming conscionable 2 years aft Snowpocalypse, I packed a bag, picked up Mom and her canine from her cold, acheronian apartment, and headed to Houston to enactment with household a fewer days. What a bully intelligence wellness determination that was! Not lone from seeing household and enjoying the comforts of electricity, but visiting the majestic, 400-year-old unrecorded oaks astatine Becks Prime (the Augusta Dr. location) again.

Ahhh, unbroken trees successful each their glory!

I archetypal blogged astir these unthinkable trees past August. This time, successful aboriginal February, I noticed ferns colonizing the trees’ snaking, horizontal limbs. I ideate they are cool-weather plants, showing up successful wintertime and going dormant successful summer.

The ferns adhd a green, hanging-garden effect to the magnificent trees.

As we sat beneath them, enjoying our lunch, a determined small visitant pulled up a spot adjacent to ours, and snagged a fry.

We couldn’t begrudge him. It was excessively beauteous a day, and we were embraced by these beauteous trees.

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