[Leica] Fall Colors: The sad history of our fig tree

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Herb, use this one.


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Thank you for the comment, Tina. I did find a lucky coincidence late
> afternoon when the yellow leaves were also hit by some sunlight.
>
> I was on the fence as to whether to use this or a different picture for
> Ted?s assignment. I chose the other picture.
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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>
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2013, at 1:02 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>
> > Beautiful light on your fig leaves!  Good luck on getting figs, too.  We
> > have 8 fig bushes at the farm and this year we had so many figs I
> couldn't
> > can, dry or preserve all of them.  The bees and the birds helped
> themselves
> > to most of the figs on one of our bushes that is the size of a small
> house.
> > There are 3 varieties of figs here, but no white ones.  I love figs in
> > every way but especially ripe and warm, right off the tree.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> We bought a house in Palo Alto for $29,000 (hate us) around 1965. I
> think
> >> the house was built around 1922, and the fig tree in the back yard was
> >> probably equally old. We got beautiful white figs from it, that is, the
> >> ones the birds left us.
> >>
> >> The only really smart financial thing we ever did was not to sell the
> >> house when we relocated to England for a few years?-turned out to be
> eight
> >> years?but rented it. Our first tenants complained that the tree trunk
> >> looked kind of rotted, they had a young child, and were afraid the tree
> >> might come down. Asked for permission to chop it down. Permission
> granted.
> >>
> >> When we returned to our house, we found that the stump of the tree was
> >> very much alive and was sprouting some branches. Eventually, it became a
> >> new tree. Because of language difficultiesI? assume that?-our gardener
> >> chopped down the tree when he had actually been asked to prune it. I
> wanted
> >> to kill him.
> >>
> >> Ultimately, following his advice, we let it sprout new shoots, picked
> the
> >> best one to be the new tree trunk, and severed the others. In time we
> even
> >> got a few figs out of the tree. Then, this year, the gardener and my
> wife
> >> concluded that it needed to be nicely shaped by further pruning. This so
> >> discouraged the tree that it produced nary a fig. I guess those two
> decided
> >> that form was more important than function.
> >>
> >> I have hopes for next year.
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1003465.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Herbert Kanner
> >> kanner at acm.org
> >> 650-326-8204
> >>
> >> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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