Autumn is here, and already there's been one or two showers of rain. As a result, the desert is beginning to spring into new life. Today, on a walk beyond Musa Spring, we not only saw these astonishing plants pushing their way through the hard earth and fabulously striated rocks, but were treated to tea by two brothers building a new farmhouse beside their lovely oasis garden, watered from an underground spring. We sat beside the little fire amid a great host of flies, sipping the sweet tea from the blackened kettle, while Ahmad, the little boy of one brother, brought as gifts some wonderful fossils. The distant Dead Sea darkened in the approaching rain.
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