“Look, it"s a house. Maybe they"ll give us some water.” Mike was with his cousins on an exploring mission. There were six cousins and they ranged in age from eight to twelve-years-old. They had neglected to take water with them when exploring the high desert while on a Memorial Day picnic with their parents.
They were looking through the leaves, branches, and blossoms of creosote bushes and saw a rock built house with a small wooden porch painted white. Drapes covered the windows. Around the front there were coyote melons, Joshua trees, gold flowering brittle bushes, and golden desert marigold carpeting the ground between the other plants.
“Did you ever see that before in all your times here?” Justin from the urban center of San Francisco was convinced his cousin spent his days wandering
