Remember the post about the tree in front of my apartment complex which shed its leaves just before Good Friday and grew them back up by Easter Sunday last year?
It was also the same Indian Soap Nut tree which was decorated with serial lights and which showed up a remarkable silhouette of India at a certain angle this new year’s eve.
With about a month to go for Easter (which falls on 24th April) this year, I did expect the tree to once again shed its leaves around that time. Rather, around the end of this month since this tree wouldn’t know that Easter has moved about 3 weeks to end of April. To my surprise, the tree started to shed leaves last week, which makes it about 3 weeks early!
Here is the tree on 11 March - almost bare with a little bit of re-growth on top. Some idiot thinking that the tree will always be this ‘bare’ tied up an advertisement poster on one of the branches :-)
And here is the tree on 15th of March. Note how the building and the bill board have been completely masked by the re-growth. All in about 4 days.
Amazing. And even more amazing is that by 18th of March, the tree has started to flower. Like last year, the flowers have started to attract a lot of flying insects; but haven’t seen any of the bats which had such a whopping meal time last year. So till yesterday night, we who stand underneath the tree and chat in the evenings don’t have to watch out for those flying rats.
Though these bats don’t crash into people and always seem to be both aware and agile enough to avoid people, the sight of bats flipping around your head is not a pleasant way to spend time.
:-P
No wonder the criminals were always shown to be afraid of the Dark Knight!
It was also the same Indian Soap Nut tree which was decorated with serial lights and which showed up a remarkable silhouette of India at a certain angle this new year’s eve.
With about a month to go for Easter (which falls on 24th April) this year, I did expect the tree to once again shed its leaves around that time. Rather, around the end of this month since this tree wouldn’t know that Easter has moved about 3 weeks to end of April. To my surprise, the tree started to shed leaves last week, which makes it about 3 weeks early!
Here is the tree on 11 March - almost bare with a little bit of re-growth on top. Some idiot thinking that the tree will always be this ‘bare’ tied up an advertisement poster on one of the branches :-)
And here is the tree on 15th of March. Note how the building and the bill board have been completely masked by the re-growth. All in about 4 days.
Amazing. And even more amazing is that by 18th of March, the tree has started to flower. Like last year, the flowers have started to attract a lot of flying insects; but haven’t seen any of the bats which had such a whopping meal time last year. So till yesterday night, we who stand underneath the tree and chat in the evenings don’t have to watch out for those flying rats.
Though these bats don’t crash into people and always seem to be both aware and agile enough to avoid people, the sight of bats flipping around your head is not a pleasant way to spend time.
:-P
No wonder the criminals were always shown to be afraid of the Dark Knight!
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