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In the garden its sheer size becomes very obvious. you liked to have seen the look on the faces of the nosey neighbours in our street.
One of the things I was never able to capture well was the sheer number of palm trees in Malaysia. There are rows and rows and rows of them, and you can see them off into the distance on the rolling hills.
According to Idras, there is no welfare system in Malaysia. If you can't find a job, the government will give you a few acres of land and some palm trees to get you started. If you work the fields and harvest the palms for 30 years, the land becomes yours. So on the train, car, and shuttle rides, it was mesmerizing to see all of the palm fields.
What you can't hear in this video is Idras' MP3 player, which is playing "Beat It" by Michael Jackson. It was one of the more surreal moments in my life.
It'll be neat to see this eclipse from all over the globe. I'm sure one of the most popular tags tonight will be "eclipse". I wasn't planning on taking a picture, but when the clouds cleared a bit this evening (it rained earlier today) it seemed like I just had to give it a shot.
This palmtree is my latest purchase for my terrace. It is quite tall, with palms reaching the level of my noze (something like 1m70). I don't know for sure what kind of washingtonia it is, it seems to be an hybrid between a filifera and a robusta.
On the evening this picture was taken, I attended a dinner party in Mesa, along with a few members of an Italian group I belong to. Having noted that Agnieszka always takes her camera with her wherever she goes, I decided to follow her example and take mine with me for this occasion. The host gave us a guided tour of his garden, in which he took a good deal of well-deserved pride; and during the tour, I noticed these twin palm trees just outside his yard, and decided they would make a good photograph. I took several shots from different locations and angles, and this one emerged as clearly the best of the lot. (I used the optical zoom feature on my camera, and took it from a distance of perhaps 150 feet.) Thank you, Agnieszka, for teaching me how to be prepared for photographic opportunity when it presents itself, as it often seems to do in the most ordinary and mundane of circumstances.
I like to joke that excepting only Barry Goldwater and perhaps a dozen other people, nobody has ever been born in Arizona; they are all born elsewhere, then eventually end up here. Thus, there is no such thing as an outsider in Arizona. For that reason, the palm tree should, in my view, be designated as the official state symbol. It is, after all, not indigenous to Arizona; rather, someone imported a few of them here, perhaps a hundred years or so ago, after which they decided they liked the place, took root, and thrived. Just as so many people have done over the years since.