THE TREE OF LIFE
evil trees. Trash trees. Farmers and ranchers, and gardeners and land scapers alike have often cursed mesquite trees ever since non-Indigenous peoples arrived in what is now Texas. Mesquites will grow nearly everywhere and anywhere. They don’t need much water or any coddling. Just plentiful sun. The seedlings are perniciously difficult to uproot. Mesquites rarely grow straight and tall. They’re often built wide and low to the ground, their wayward branches revealing the truth of the wind. Their
