When the Cypress Whispers
At first light, when the fog still clings to the water like drifting silk, Old Cypress Bayou breathes in silence. Great limbs of ancient cypress drip with moss that shimmers like silver lace. The air smells of damp wood and wild mint, and somewhere unseen, a heron lifts off with a low, echoing cry. This place is more than land and water; it is memory and myth — a living tapestry woven by every frog’s chorus, every glint of sunrise on black water, every whispered secret between reeds.