Perris Web
by Mike Herron
Fog
was rare in the desert, but when it did come early with the sunrise
it highlighted things one didn't even realize were there.
The
hill on which we put our house was overgrown by 90% Sagebrush and 10% other
plants like this
high chia stalk supporting a web of entrapment above the surrounding sage,
right at the flight level of small insects.
The uppermost cluster of dried material was a clumping of tiny, tiny pods
of beans no bigger than
the smallest little glass sewing beads. Many of these were gathered, and crushed
to make a paste for a
hot fire rock sort of baked bread cake.
Anyway here is a Perris Web from a deep, dense 1983 fog on our hillside.