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Subject: [Leica] Fall Colors: The sad history of our fig tree
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:54:24 -0800
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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.




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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> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley
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