I could touch the top of these trees when I moved into my house 24 years ago.
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Palms, For Sunday Trees, June 29, 2025
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Category Archives: Trees
Palm Tree Trimming Time Again, for Last on the Card
Palm Fruiting Stem, for FOTD, Feb 9, 2025
For FOTD
Palm Fruiting Fronds, for FOTD Feb 7, 2025
Day Lily, for Cee’s FOTD
For Cee’s FOTD
A Remarkable Sky
From my pool in the Raquet Club, San Juan Cosala, Mexico, 7:51 PM January 6, 2025
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Schefflera Bloom For FOTD
Schefflera actinophylla, umbrella tree
Although I had these trees in California, they never bloomed like this. I love seeing them but have none around my house. This photo was taken at my friends Harriet and Paul’s house.
For Cee’s FOTD
Sunset Silhouettes: For FOTD, Mar 29, 2024
For Cee’s FOTD
Palm, bamboo, plumeria, pistachio and setting sun! Not a flower in the bunch, but there is the potential for flowers on the plumeria. Just couldn’t resist sharing the sunset.
The Ultimate Tree-Climbers, for Thursday Tree Love
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Three or four times a year, the men climb my 7 tall palm trees to trim the fruiting stems and spray for palm beetle. They use a tall ladder, then have to climb up the rest of the way and suspend themselves as they chop free the huge palm fronds. They are efficient and work beautifully in groups of six—three at a time up in the trees, the others gathering what falls and carrying the shed fronds out to their truck that grinds them up into compost. They have been tending my trees for 22 years now, and every time, it is a pleasure to watch. When they leave, every bit of litter that has fallen down from the trees has been cleared, and the pool is pristine.
The Night Before the Eclipse
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Looking up to take these photos, I felt I was in a dream world.
Such an eerie night. I ended up going out late in the evening to exercise in the pool which was hot from being filled during the day. This is the sight that greeted me…plus a shot from late afternoon/early evening. Can’t decide which I like best, although I did delete 4. Help me decide? I like the sense of distance in the first shot of the gallery, but like the clouds in the first main shot and second gallery shot. They seem to actually wrap around the trees.
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