From deep within the DNA of these plants, a threshold is reached and the latency of their beauty is revealed to our sapient kind.
In another corner of the Dehesa, the same processes reanimate the somnolent bees and they open their delicate wings to the morning sun.
With an intimacy born from uncounted years of evolution, the two awaken and meet in the fertile meadow under the mountain wall.
Even the clouds drop from the sky to join with this reunion of the plant and animal kingdoms.
This ancient affair of the heart is rekindled across the warm south as winters grip relaxes from the land.
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