...and I did not have much time to go photo hunting.
But let's play a game of 1,2,3 with some palm trees (7 shots).
I also want to show you how important the background of a photo is, as it always lends a great character to the main picture. Oh yes, I had to wait for the wind to drive the clouds in the background into the position above the tree's head, as I saw that lighter triple layered cloud coming along, and as you see it finally did. We love the palm trees, and we had one big one in our garden at the old house, and every early summer season the fruits on the palm would be ready for the giant fruit bats that I showed you some years ago. Sadly, the new owner of the house, had the entire tree cut down.
Another thing that we hate is when we hear the noise of a tree cutting machine (chainsaw), and just recently one of them was singing its noisy and loud chatter across the road, as the guy cut some trees down in his garden. We believe in two reasons to cut a tree down. First, is when the tree is damaged by the borer beetle, and the second is when the tree has died of old age. In the old age case, the tree becomes a danger as a strong wind can blow it over to fall on to a person's house.
First, you saw only one palm tree.
Second, below you will see two palm trees (2 shots).
Third, and finally, you will see 3 palm trees (2 shots).
And then I took the two shots below later in the day.
The sky was just as busy on this day as we were with our charity work, and I sadly couldn't watch the process of the clouds changing their formations in a series. As you will see below, I only got the two shots when we were back on the road again to our house. A very handy application of the palm trees, is that they show us the direction of the winds, whereas the other trees are just blown all over the show. Sometimes we see how the high palm trees dance in the wind, and the crows also prefer to nest in the palm trees.
Another reason why the crows prefer to build their nests in the palm tree heads, is that the heads are compact and very dense, so as a bird of prey comes along in search of their babies in the nests then the crows can easily defend it, as they simply sound the crow alarm call and then soon there will be 10 or 20 crows around to chase the intruder away. A bird of prey that we know very well is the Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene), and everytime that that nest raider comes along, I also join the crows from the ground to chase him away.
Not only were we busy with the charity work, as we also had to go and vote and that always requires a very early rise from our slumbers to stumble to the voting center. I don't know about you, but I really don't like to have to stand in a long queue for an hour or 3. I have to say that this time things worked out a bit sooner, as the last voting period took us 5 hours to get to the voting booth. This time it took us only 2,5 hours, half the time of the previous session. But then again, the neighbour next door went to vote at another place, and she said that it took her 20 minutes, including the drive there. So, you can guess where we will go to vote next time. With our luck, there will be a long queue. Lol.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos and word by Zac Smith. No AI and Photoshop. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
Until next time. Shalom!