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We're standing under the Italian chestnut tree, perhaps the only one in New York City. Seeds were sent from my grandfather's village. One year it bore 10 tiny chestnuts. He later planted a few other trees because he said it needed girlfriends; his way of explaining cross pollination.
Behind us is a fig tree, also from Italy. While not nearly so rare, very few people, I think, can remember eating Bronx figs. I can. Fig trees existed on a narrow threshold between life and death during Bronx winters, and, even if they survived, the short season and the lack of sun made the fruit uncommon and exotic. To extend the growing season, my grandfather would keep them in large barrels, and every fall we would put planks on the stairs and roll them up into the house and then down again in the spring. During the winter he would sit in the living room and watch television, surrounded by his fig trees. They all liked "Bonanza."
Eventually they grew too large for the house, so we would dig trenches and bend the trunks into the ground below the frost line. We then piled earth on top of them. Mounds of earth like graves. That's where the trees were waiting, underground, when he died.
But these trees found a way to survive; they had their own resources. They can, when necessary, send their piercing roots straight into your heart. What else can explain why so many immigrants brought them from Italy to America, and why I brought cuttings from my grandfather’s trees back with me to Italy and planted them on my terrace in Rome.
Taken on the wooden deck at Olifants rest camp where these birds have become very tame, to the point where I was able to take this image with a 17-40mm uncropped.
I took the photo because the branches of the Knobbly Fig formed this overlapping pattern which I think is quite attractive.Unfortunately I unintentionally underexposed the bird in my efforts to compose the image as I wanted before the bird flew off.
I managed to correct this in CC and whilst this image isn't perfect by any measure I'm pleased with the result.
The Knobbly Fig only grows up to an altitude of 900m and this is a fine example of the species. The deck at Olifants is a relatively new addition and was built around these trees. Ficus sansibarica is named for the island of Zanzibar.
Olifants rest camp
Kruger National Park
Limpopo
South Africa
No postpo work at all, only an insane supermacro shot through a fig tree leaf. =)
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Double-eyed Fig Parrot. Cyclopsitta diophthalma Macleayana.
I can not begin to describe how excited this encounter was for me. There where nine birds in total in the one fig tree Pairs and young.
Sixty five photos later.
The Double-eyed Fig Parrot is Australia's smallest parrot.
Their eggs are laid in holes in dead, sometimes perilously shaky, trees.
Seen ideally three or four times each year around the weeping native fig trees which set fruit and attract these parrots.
Both sexes have a red forehead, but the males also have a red cheek patch, as opposed to the females' which is usually yellow.
Feigenbaum (Ficus carica) / Fig tree / Higuera
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Photographer: Unidentified
Location: Logan district, Queensland, Australia
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Fig trees, Ibiza. Eivissa.
The island's landscape of Ibiza is inconceivable without its fig trees with their wide verdant leaves.
Dozens of varieties of figs are cultivated in Ibiza and each kind offers its characteristic taste, texture and color. Among the most popular varieties are orioles, albocors, alcudies, blanques, verdals, bordissots, coll de dama, julies, martinenques…and more.
The fruits are harvested between July and August.
St Pauls Passionist Monastery church and gardens Urrbrae Adelaide.
This acreage was originally owned by Arthur Hardy of nearby Claremont House. In 1847 part of his property was sold to Joseph Montefiore and he planted the giant Moreton Bay Fig around the time be built a grand two storey residence called the Glen. In 1855 the residence and property passed to the Boothby family of judges and writers. Members of the Boothby family remained there until it was sold to the Passionist Brothers in 1896 for use as a monastery. At the same time a new residence or bishop’s palace for the Adelaide Bishop was built across the road from the monastery in 1897. This was handed over to the Carmelite nuns in 1935. Meantime across Cross Road Glen House was demolished in 1927 and the new St Paul the Cross Catholic Church was built that year on its site. It opened in 1928. The architect was Herbert Jory who had many commissions for the Catholic Church in South Australia at that time. A new monastery was attached to the church in 1929 and it was also designed by Herbert Jory in the same Romanesque style with Mediterranean influences such as terracotta tiles, arches, long verandas etc.
The Australian Passionist Brothers commissioned 14 Carrera marble statues depicting the station of the cross to be built in 1953 for their Goulburn Monastery in New South Wales. They were created in the Ferndinado Palla Studio in Tuscany. All the figures in the statues are half-life size and weigh at least half a ton. It took six to eight months to complete each finely detailed statue and they were shipped to Australia over several years and then trucked to Goulburn. All had arrived by 1955. Each statue cost around £500, a considerable sum in those days when you could buy a suburban house for around £1,000. The Passionist Brothers sold their Goulburn property in 1974 and the statues were kept in storage. In the year 2000 the marble statues were moved to the Passionist Monastery at Glen Osmond. They are complemented there by beautiful gardens with an air of serenity and peace.
Some things very dear to my heart... nature, and my trusty Linhof Technica with which I've made so many of my favourite photographs over the past decade.
The glass bell houses 4 Gonimbrasia belina (Emperor moth) larvae, which I'm very much looking forward to seeing when they hatch.
"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." -Dalai Lama
Taking a break from my Yosemite photos to share some appreciation of new life and a new season for growth. Happy Spring :)
113 seconds @ F8 ISO 200 for The Fig Tree Under The Full Moon.
The redish cast was coming from the lights on the nearby intersection & the tree
was lit up with a torch then the full moon did the rest.
I.Ds 841 & 10404 photographed by John Ward on 2000-09-29 using a 35mm camera producing a colour slide that was subsequently scanned and digitised.
When Sydney in Australia was the host City for the Olympic Games.in 2000, a large number of buses were called in to assist with the crowds. Many cam from far and wide across Eastern Australia.
Rutty's Bus Sevice of Figtree, Wollongong provided a number of vehicles and one was Mack Renault PR100.2 m/o-6125 (fleet No 25) ex Action Canberra ZIB-685 BUS-685 (fleet No 685). The bus was fitted with an Ansair body built in Melbourne in 1987. The bus is on Route 7B to Sydney Olympic Park and is onon Olympic Duties. The vehicle is overtaking State Transit Authority Scania L113CRB (CNG) m/o-3625 which has an Ansair Orana series body built in Tamworth in 5-1995. This bus in ordinary service on Route 411 Ashfield via Bexley North Station.
The loaction is in Roseland Avenue at the Roselands Shopping Centre, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia.
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Townsville, Queensland.
Description: View of the Strand including young fig trees, many of which still stand today.
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We were astonished to find this huge figtree. In Victorian times they already knew how to grow exotic plants .