Letter From the Desert: Mesquite tree

That’s the photo I took of the mesquite tree a few days before we closed on the house. The lady who sold the place to us planted it as a tiny seedling in 1985 or so, and it grew slowly but steadily in the way mesquites do until its roots found their way into the septic tank. Or at least to its subterranean outflow.

It was the biggest mesquite I have eve…