In Exile From The Burning Sun (from the series: Stigma and Style)
“There is nothing more beautiful,” my mother once told me, “than the flowers of the forest. We do nothing to encourage them and they do everything to encourage us.”
We could say the same, about the flowers of the desert, whose survival seems to me like such a hit and miss affair, but for one thing; few of us venture into desert lands to enjoy the flora.
When we meet with desert flora, it is they rather than us who have wandered from their natural home. I own a few flowering cacti, which I inherited and I do my best not to destroy them with water. When I took this photo I was pondering their fate, to be in Texas where the heat is so pervasive in summer and yet to be trapped in an air-conditioned world, where thorns and water-retaining skin serve little purpose. These poor plants must feel as though they live in darkness, in exile from the burning sun.
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