Pook's Mill

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Mystery Tree in San Antonio

I love it when a good mystery occurs that baffles all the "experts". In this case, an old woman discovered her tree had special qualities. "I have a mystery tree!" she says. This tree apparently waters itself. Water pours out of it like a faucet. You would think such a phenomena would be easy to explain but the experts are stumped.

My Pookish guess is that as Texas sinks, the water rose up to and through the tree. Anyhow, the world is more interesting when not everything can be explained. It brings to truth Shakespeare's maxim:

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

--From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)