No.13

This photograph was taken at Lynncraigs Farm at Dalry, Scotland, showing the Husband and Wife Tree. This is an example of inosculation where trunks or branches of two trees grow together.

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The Banyan Tree

by Rabindranach Tagore

O you shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond,

have you forgotten the little child, like the birds that have

nested in your branches and left you? 

Do you not remember how he sat at the window and wondered at

the tangle of your roots and plunged underground? 

The women would come to fill their jars in the pond, and your

huge black shadow would wriggle on the water like sleep struggling to wake up.

Sunlight danced on the ripples like restless tiny shuttles

weaving golden tapestry.

Two ducks swam by the weedy margin above their shadows, and

the child would sit still and think.

He longed to be the wind and blow through your resting

branches, to be your shadow and lengthen with the day on the water,

to be a bird and perch on your topmost twig, and to float like

those ducks among the weeds and shadows. 

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This is a great view of Multnomah Falls in Oregon, 

showing the footbridge and the upper and lower falls.

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The Lamplighter
by Robert Louis Stevenson 

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky,
It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by,
For every night at teatime and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,
And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be,
But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do,
O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you!

For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more,
And oh! before you hurry by with ladder and with light,
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight!

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No, your eyes are not deceiving you! This fence is decorated with women’s bras.

It all started at Christmas 1999 when four bras were found on the wire fence at Cardrona in Central Otago, New Zealand. Within a few days more were added and soon the idea had caught on; by October of 2000 there were around 200 bras hanging on the fence.

In 2006 the number was estimated to be 800 and the local authorities, declaring the display to be a traffic hazard, had the fence removed.

Spoilsports!!!

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"But I don't want to go further. It's nearly my teatime."

Next post - Wednesday

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