palmTree photos on Flickr

Sometimes you can find treasures in the most mundane places. This Downy Woodpecker was tapping a hole into the base of a palm frond in a grocery store parking lot.

by Fred Rebell

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A WOMAN’S WORK IS NEVER DONE by NC Cigany

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palmtrees by jor baeke

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Palmtrees by ilovethirdplanet

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Cali Sunset by gmharriett

Breton Tropical Tree by JL 2025

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Plage De St Efflam Bretagne

Palmtree Promenade by Achim

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... in morning sunshine !

African Elephants / Afrikanische Elefanten (Loxodonta africana)

Amboseli Game Reserve, Kenya, Africa

From my archive safari ...

Explored: 05.11.2013

s.t. by sprcubi

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The Urban Landscape by Patrick McGhan

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One tree by Karol Franks

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Palmtrees... by Julia Rovere

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A corridor of palmtrees (each one with more than a hundred years-old), at the Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro...

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Um corredor com palmeiras imperiais (cada uma delas com mais de cem anos), no Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro...

Weltevree in Korea. Palms and Windmills on Jeju Island, South Korea by Rana Pipiens

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To clear my mind of the Learned Endeavors to which I came home for a week, I cycled on the pretty Hoornsedijk to the south of Groningen, one of my favorite places. As always, I paused a moment at 'De Helper' - dating from 1863 -, a windmill reconstructed 1996-7 on the east side of the Paterwoldsemeer. It's a 'working' mill and often in the weekends its sails are fully deployed. The red sails and the whirr of its blades are a delight to ear and eye.

Well-content I pedaled home but not before seeing some curiously and anomalously Siamese-twinned Splitlip hempnettle flowers (Galeopsis bifida). But the photos are not sharp enough to post.

'Well-content'... Yes, a pun on the Dutch 'Weltevree'. And that brings me to this posted shot. Here are what look at first glance very much like Dutch windmills in a palm-tree setting. The scene is on the spacious grounds of the Lotte Hotel near Seogwipo, Jeju Island, South Korea. I suppose such a scene should not be surprising for a place that also boasts a Teddy Bear Museum... And indeed it's more than a mere owner's quirk or fetish.

For it was on these coasts that Hendrik Hamel (1630-1692) of the Dutch East Indies Trading Company was shipwrecked (1653). His account of Jeju and of Korea is the first European one of some length. Hamel and his companions were not the first Dutchmen in Korea. Hamel describes his encounter with a Dutchman-gone-native here as Pak Yon, Jan Janse Weltevree (1595-after 1656). Weltevree had arrived in Korea in 1627. Not allowed to leave again, he'd apparently taken things in stride. He learned Korean - forgetting much of his Dutch - married a Korean wife, and he became an important adviser on firearms and other weaponry to the Joseon rulers. Though thoroughly naturalised - Hamer writes- his beard became wet with tears on meeting the party of Dutch men. For a while he was their interpreter.

Weltevree came from De Rijp, in the province of North Holland, a place of water and windmills. I'm not sure what he would have thought of the windmill-like constructions in the photo. Their blades turn on an electromotor and are not governed by the winds (and they need no sails, of course). A pretty view, though, and In the shade of palm trees we had that quintessential Dutch drink, a Heineken... and were Well-content, Weltevree.

7249. A grey day. It wet out there. by Diana Susselman

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The Flickr Lounge: Week 46: One or two Colors

by getolina

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palmtrees by Renate Oskam

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Developing Palm trees! by Angeles M

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Palmtree by Sylvi

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in the morning sun;