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| Chinaberry tree, El Paso, Texas. February 2017. |
February 2017
I was walking, hopefully in the right direction, to El Paso's Black History Parade when I saw them.
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| Chinaberry tree, El Paso, Texas. February 2017. |
Of course, I didn't know what "they" were when I saw them, and I had to look them up after I got home.
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| Chinaberry tree, El Paso, Texas. February 2017. |
Chinaberry trees!
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| Chinaberry tree, El Paso, Texas. February 2017. |
Against a brilliant blue sky, the crinkly, yellow fruits hung like flirty earrings from leafless branches.
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| Chinaberry tree, El Paso, Texas. February 2017. |
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| Chinaberry tree, El Paso, Texas. February 2017. |
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| Chinaberry tree, El Paso, Texas. February 2017. |
Look at the decorative bark, like a cocoa-and-vanilla batik. If I were standing there now, I'd stroke it to feel the textured design.
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| Chinaberry tree, El Paso, Texas. February 2017. |
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