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

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Neat story, Herb. We are having a bad year with our lemon tree, the last few 
months it has produced just a few green ones instead of the abundance of 
nice plump yellow lemons I am used to. Fortunately, my main use of lemons is 
for rum & Coke and gin & tonic, and there are enough for that. I simply 
cannot imagine buying a lemon in a supermarket anymore.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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On Nov 10, 2013, at 5:18 AM, Herbert Kanner 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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