Current Photo Friday theme: Strength.
On a corner in Houston where the areas of Montrose and the Museum District meet, this live oak is what my friend James calls “Tree of Trees.” Today as I shot it, a group of tourists passed by, and I heard one say, “All of these are gone from Ocean Springs now, but that’s okay. We’ll just start over. The trees will be back.”
Featured in Three Fortunes in One Cookie, Ocean Springs is one of the beautiful small towns on the Mississippi Gulf Coast that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But he’s right, and I admire his stoicism.
There’s strength in enduring, strength in rebuilding, and strength to be learned from these majestic live oaks.