Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >