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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, January 23, 2002
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Dear Mercedes,
Letters from F.S. Lentz, Jr.
Dear Mercedes,
— Two Bits From The Dry
There are twenty-six different way.
species of birds on this place,
Branch of French Creek — again, that I know. When you
A Lot of Numbers
notice them every day for many
One thing that you do lose with
winter here is the deep oranges
and banana yellows of the
The patch of land out back of days in a row, a new guy stands butterflies. All that is left are a
this place is wearing its winter
colors. It is mostly straw colored,
out.
few little dogfaces and some little
I wondered for a long time how gray metal marks. Cold-hearty
with clumps of dark green here someone could know which from little creatures wearing their
and there, in no defined shape, which. Just a matter of watching winter chitinous colors.
There are small clouds of dark a lot, not rocket science or I like that word chitinous, that
clay ground. concentrated observation. A new is what the millions of scales on a
On the left is a grove of live one makes you stand still when you Butterfly are made of... chitinous
oaks, a mott, I have learned they see it. You have to, to say its colors material.
are called. On the right are two and markings in your head so you I miss the color, but would not
individual live oaks, separated by won’t forget it when you go to the trade it for the calm and quiet of
their canopies and skirt. There is Sibley book to look it up.
winter here. You can hear your
about eighty open yards between There are a few regular own breathing many times, hear
them, where stand three mesquites returning kinds, I have spoken with wind stir across the top of a tree
in a diagonal line.
fondness of some before, fifty yards away.
All the fo liage has been Goldfinches and tree ducks that my Robins will be here in a month
stripped from the mesquites. The neighbor Brabant started feeding six anyway, so will the bluebonnets
oaks are holding their leaves for years ago. They aren’t dumb and that finally decided to make a
spring or a twenty-knot gale, return to his yard every year. stand, thirty colonies of them now.
whichever comes first. The open Pretty soon the Cedar I was set back by the appearance
area is about fifty yards wide, Waxwings will show up. I hope of so many poking up until I
walking room, which is what I do they bring a few Bohemians with remembered that most of the seed,
as often as I am here.
them this year. The hummers over two hundred, were put out
On that patch grow seven make it for spring. Juncos will be two years ago. You learn how
different kinds of trees that I know here, Eastern Kingbirds, and a things go, eventually.
the names of and one that I do not. bunch of different little warblers The other day marked the third
I have figured out who nineteen that stay low to the ground will anniversary of being here. Lots of
of the plants are, things I used to ride the next front in, I am betting, numbers.
call weeds, and that many more Eight or ten kinds live here the Been here three years now, the
that I have not figured out an year round, the usual but never 12th move in sixteen years. It was
identity for. I no longer hoe up, out boring Mockers, Chickadees, a conscious decision to come, but
of hand, the peculiar looking Ground, Mourn ing, and the sinking in and firming up about
unnamed plants.
Whitewing dove, two kinds of knowing a place has happened on
But I go after sand burrs, the Jays, Scrub and Blue. The skittery its own.
stickers, with a vengeance. I have little titmice, black crested and I didn’t plan on it. Something
hated them since barefooted common... Still only one Red about that process just happens
boyhood and still do. I even go so Shouldered hawk and two Hoot when it happens. It has and I am
far as to pickup the individual owls. glad.
piercing little devils, with gloves, And my resident coyote, which I may even get a chance to
and bum them. I have no idea how I got a picture of. Boy, was he learn how to find butterfly eggs
they got here; weren’t here when surprised.
and larvae. Radio said there’s
I arrived, but they are here. I am Glad he’s here; he and I get over one hundred different kinds
sure they have redeeming along very well. We share the of them here. Hope so.
biological value, but I can’t see it, good fruit from a Chapote tree, 4Que te vaya bien, eh?
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 23, 2002, newspaper, January 23, 2002; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1652984/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.