Cactus Watering

Posted on November 26, 2006 in The Phone Weather

I’ve been letting my cacti and jade plant go unwatered all summer long. Around this time, there should be the first drops of rain, but there must not be enough dust in the air or a low enough barometer reading because these have not fallen. Clouds pile and tear over the jagged terrain, but leave nothing to the land.

So today, I watered my cacti. Let loose with a seasonally-unfamiliar-shower from the hose, gave the stressed leaf-branches a relief. A few of them had begun to wither. Others did not seem to mind the long drought: still they accepted the water-gift and stowed its molecules in cells covered by thick sun-resisting skin.