The bark of this giant tree that had fallen across the road and been cut in two, then left with the chunk covering the road removed, became a host for other plants and fungi to thrive on.
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Just a few blocks away, we found this other bark—this one less welcoming to intruders.
For the Travel theme “bark!”
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The fruiting stems of each variety of palm are different, but they are all as beautiful as flowers to my eye. They do flower, but are so messy–thousands of the blooms ending up in my pool filter and on my decks. These are someone else’s problem, however, as I found them on the street in La Manz. I just get to enjoy them.
For Cee’s Flower Challenge
Here is my entry to Becca’s Sunday Trees – 275 Tree challenge.
I meant to show you this entire tree months ago and it kept slipping my mind. I showed the various stages all showing on the tree at the same time. Here is the entire tree. I still don’t know its name. I named it the Carwash Tree because it is in the parking lot of the Lake Taco Carwash in Ajijic, Mexico. (Sit and have a margarita and taco as you wait for your car to be washed.)
This is my long-overdue entry for Becca’s Sunday Tree Challenge.
Here is the promised view of the entire Xmas tree at the Nueva Posada. Every year, Judy Eger does a different fabulous tree. See last year’s Here. See this year’s below. Christmas in Mexico lasts from Dec. 12 to Jan. 6, Three King’s Day. Actually, it isn’t completely over until Candlemas on Feb. 2, but I imagine this tree will be taken down by then. I wonder what she will do with all the angels?
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Palm trees, hibiscus, bamboo and pistachio tree. Remove them from this scene and what would you have? Trees are both the life and the decorations of our world. They soften harsh edges as well as some of the ugliness of our world. They give us breath, shade and shelter, food and some of the sweetness of life. They provide homes for birds and other animals and a foundation for our westward expansion.
But most of all, for me, they give a place for my eyes to rest upon that assures me that whatever ills men may promulgate upon other men, that nature remains constant. It is not that it does not change, but within the larger cycle, all is constant, as it is in our human cycle. What we see as good and evil take their turns in ascendancy, but still, we return at some part of this cycle to the norm. The success of our lives has to do with how hard we work to maintain the norm in our own lives, in spite of what is happening in the larger cycles.
This is what I think of when I look at trees. For fourteen years, I lived surrounded by Redwood Trees. They were there before I was born and will hopefully be there after I die. Taller and older than us, if they had a consciousness, they could see the larger picture. Our world is a living thing that regards us as a symbiotic partner or a bothersome pest. It is up to us which we become.
Wish I knew the story of this ancient one that stands in the marketplace near the river in Puerto Vallarta. I believe it is a banyan tree, but I am open to being corrected.
https://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/sunday-trees-262/
How sparse does a tree have to get before it ceases to be a tree and becomes a branch?
https://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/sunday-trees-5th-year/
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