Sprouts

Jacob Korte - UNT History Major

Most of the flower variety which was present last week is gone. The henbit is still here, as are the clovers, although they have lost their flowers. The trees, including the cottonwood, are much greener now, amazingly so considering it has only been a week since I was last here. Likewise the Mexican plums have lost their weird, spikey looking flowers and are now just green bushes in appearance. There are some small beginnings of plum fruit on the branches, but they are not close to the size they will be once they are fully matured. It is windy and just recently rained and I haven’t seen a single ant around, there are several roly-poly bugs crawling around the Mandala. On the ground at the base of the plums, green shoots/sprouts have appeared which have a leaf structure very similar to the plums. Most likely they are new plums that landed near the base of the parent plant. There is a bird in the cottonwood which has been singing the same song for about five minutes, with roughly 20 second gaps in between repeats. It reminded me of the meeting we had with Dr. Haskell earlier today, and I wonder if he could have told me what the bird was.