C enizo Not es
by Carolyn Brown Zniewski, publisher and Danielle Gallo, editor
I
t’s high summer
here in the Big
Bend. The smell of
barbecue is in the air.
Folks only go inside for
a siesta or at bedtime.
The outdoors is every-
where, including my
living room, which
attracts a fascinating
variety of insects. The
wet weather has sets those little buggies’
hearts afire. The bugs bring the birds. The
cactus swallows think my front door is the
entrance to a buffet. I think I had better get a
screen door!
This is a great summer to go on a bug
hunt, a scavenger hunt for insects. Everyone
will need a cell phone. Just head out into a
yard and snap a shot of each different bug
you see in 10 minutes. It’s a good way to pass
the time waiting for the charcoal to make
coals. Bugs will be thick as thieves in the
weedy areas so snap away until the grill is
ready.
On a totally different topic I have to men-
tion our website. It has been neglected since
last fall. We have a new webmaster and she
will post the missing back issues as well as
July, 2015. I am so sorry for any inconven-
ience this may have caused.
The Cenizo Journal is printed by Shweiki
using a hand-operated, vintage web press
giving printerly quality. Consider framing
the artwork.
Enjoy the summer days.
F
or the first time
since we planted
them, our fruit
trees are heavy with
fruit. Peaches are
swelling, apricots are
crowding out the leaves
on their branches, and
cherries dangle merrily
like rakish earrings.
Neighbors have been
calling for help with the fruit harvest before
the ants and birds manage to organize them-
selves, and I’m busy trying to make room in
the freezer for the bounty. It’s been that rare
year of heavy rains without a late freeze, and I
mean to enjoy every bite of it.
Time passes more quickly every year, but
one thing I love about the Big Bend is the
molasses quality of summer—the light that
lingers well past nine, lending my toddler’s
bedtime arguments an undeniable thread of
logic. “Mommy,” she says quite reasonably, “I
can’t go to bed. It isn’t dark outside.” The
interminable hours of siesta with the sun bak-
ing the caliche, making me glance at the clock
a thousand times, trying to will the fresh
evening to come sooner. Long, lazy hours of
porch sitting all over town, the barbecues and
cocktail socials, maybe a little live music down
on Main Street.
Summer in the Big Bend is lazy, stretching
its fingers and toes into spring and fall,
reminding even the grownups that we can still
slow the frenetic tumbling of the seasons if the
circumstances are just right. Enjoy the third
quarter of Cenizo with a cold, sweaty beer and
a slice of ubiquitous watermelon; even our
desert summer days can’t last forever.
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