It Blesses You When You Find It
You might see a river on a map of Arizona and decide to pay a visit. However, often when you look for the water you do not find it. Water is rare here — and flowing water vanishingly rare — so when you discover a cottonwood gallery like this rising from the banks of a wild and free-running stream, you have truly received a blessing.
Even when you fail to lay eyes on your river, you can sometimes make an engaging image out of a debris-filled arroyo:
