Saturday, 22 June 2019

I'm adrift in a place where I don't know "when" it is.

It's hard to know what season it is here sometimes. The calender doesn't help because that says it's June but the shortest day of the year just happened and it froze, hard, two nights ago. 

And the plants don't help either. All of the pictures that I've lined up for you today were taken within about two weeks of one another as I took various walks around the neighborhood. 

Take a look.


 This is my number one oak tree. 


 About half a mile away, this stone head keeps company with a very green palm tree. 


 And some sort of Aloe, I think. 


And another sort with flower spikes


And bananas, for Pete's sake!


 Then I turn a corner and walk back into fall. 


Yup, it's fall alright. 



It must  be fall, or winter. Jeanne's kumera harvest is in.

 But I turn yet another corner and find this palm with some sort of blossoms.


 And the 'fried egg' tree has flowers all over it too. 



And look at this one. They are some sort of ornamental date I think. (Nothing but seed and skin, but they have a datey sort of taste about them. 

I guess I'm going to have to call it winter here, because it gets dark early, is cold, rainy and unpleasant some of the time. But it sure is confusing.  

Here's a short video of how it rains here in the winter, all too often.


I carry an umbrella practically all the time in the winter, but as you can see, an umbrella won't keep all of me dry when it comes down sideways. And if I tryed to use one in this kind of gale, I think I'd find it wrapped around my neck. 

We go through a lot of umbrellas here.    -djf  




2 comments:

  1. I can see why it's so easy to be confused as to what season you're in. You've got all those gorgeous harvests on the one hand, bare trees on another and flowers blooming on still another! Your favorite oak looks like the one at the duck ponds - but so much smaller without it's leaves.

    The rain in your video sure is relentless - so glad you weren't caught in it!

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  2. I'll have to get up to Sturges and take a picture of your favorite white bottle brush tree to show you what it is up to.

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