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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. 

 

For Thursday Tree Love

Trees Trees Trees

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When I moved into my house 22 years ago, I could touch the top of these palm trees. They’ve grown, I’ve shrunk.

 

For the Nature Photo Challenge: Trees

Moonlight Reflection: Wordle 562

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Moonlight Reflection

The radiant moon invites me to meander to the pool.
To miss its cloud-scrimmed drama would reveal me as a fool.
Its flickering light reflected in the pool’s steaming glass,
I part its even surface asunder as I pass.

Clothed in liquid light, I walk a smooth straight line,
reflectively immersed in this world that is all mine.
I have no other idol except this ghost of moon.
I feel that I could taste it if I only had a spoon.

Its taste would be ambrosial upon my earthly tongue—
the first to taste a lunar menu formerly unsung.
I bundle up my prayers and toss them overhead,
leaving all my worries unthought of and unsaid.

The stone steps lead me up again from its steaming mass
and I shed off moonlight around me as I pass.
I take its memory with me as I return to bed,
the splendor of the moonlight forever in my head. 

Today’s prompt words are: reflective radiant immersed meander idol  line taste drama ghost  flickering stone. The photos I took two weeks ago before leaving my house to travel to the states for my school reunion. A glorious scene. One of the shots is the moon and trees reflected in the surface of my  pool that is fed by  hot mineral springs that pass through the  magma layer fed by the Colima Volcano, 80 miles away. I swim in it almost nightly.

 

For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 562

 

Palm Sunday: Sunday Trees 278

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Somewhere, it is snowing, but not at Chantli Mare!!! There, every Sunday is Palm Sunday.

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Palm Fruiting Stem: Cee’s Flower of the Day, Feb 22, 2017

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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