{"id":358,"date":"2015-03-25T11:42:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:45:02","slug":"rain-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Rain in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rain-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-359\" title=\"rain crop\" src=\"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rain-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2433\" height=\"1168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rain-crop.jpg 2433w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rain-crop-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rain-crop-1024x491.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rain-crop-500x240.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2433px) 100vw, 2433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The landscape in West Texas doesn\u2019t hide much. During the day you can see just about everything between the bright blue sky and the hard brown earth for miles around. Plains give way to rolling hills, then steep mountains. Jagged volcanic rocks pierce soft grasslands. Trees grow where there is no soil. And you can certainly see how dry it is; this is the only place where I have seen rainfall evaporate before it reached the ground.<\/p>\n<p>But today the rain touches the ground and, paradoxically, the mist that covers the hills reveals life in the rocks and grasses that the clear sunny days had hidden. Purple, yellow, and white flowers dot the roadsides and peek out from under the cacti and boulders. On a day like this, the rain is like a like a message from a long lost love, softening the parched earth as friendship softens the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, the dry weather will return. There will still be great beauty in the desert. Trees will still grow where there is no soil. Beneath the rocks and grasses, prairie verbena and star cloak fern wait; when their memory is stirred, they will bloom again. This earth is hard, but it is not barren.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/desert-flowers-stitched.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-363\" title=\"Desert Flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/desert-flowers-stitched-1024x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/desert-flowers-stitched-1024x297.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/desert-flowers-stitched-300x87.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/desert-flowers-stitched-1000x288.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/desert-flowers-stitched-500x145.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landscape in West Texas doesn\u2019t hide much. During the day you can see just about everything between the bright blue sky and the hard brown earth for miles around. Plains give way to rolling hills, then steep mountains. 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