For Butuki

The tree still has fruit...

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[Jill Smith]

We went to the National Aroboretum today - saw a couple of loquat trees - thought of you!

[butuki]

What a wonderful link! Dead leaves and fruit. The problem here in the Land of Pruning Sheers is that the loquat tree behind my garden has had all its leaves lopped off two months ago. So no fruit this year. It looks like a Q-Tip at the moment, or, as an American friend named the area that he is living in in southern Japan, "Upper and Lower Coatrack".

[butuki]

But I have a question... something that has been intriguing me for years... Is it just my imagination, but do women have more lines in their palms than men?

[butuki]

Oh, and I almost forgot: Thank you.

[Rana]

You're welcome!

About the lines... I don't know. Maybe. We do, as a sex, have thinner skin, so that might result in more obvious creases, but...
I have to say I've often found palm-reading books a bit frustrating, because virtually all of my major lines are "broken" or "chained" and that supposedly means that nothing ever continues along a nice, predictable path. Heh.

We sometimes see the results around here of overenthusiastic pruning, too. Some trees can take it (though when they grow back the overall shape is indeed rather Q-tip like) but others... that happened to a bunch of fruit trees at one of our homes after we moved out; it was horrible to see.

Jill -- how cool! They are rather interesting trees, aren't they?

I'm going to try to post a picture of a seed later this week, if I can get the camera to cooperate.

[Jill Smith]

They were cool - They were placed near the knot and herb gardens, though - so I have to say my attention span was a bit short. It was, "Cool, Loqua-- hey, another species of lavender!!"

They also had geranium species I had never heard of. ::grump, desire::

[Rana]

*grin*

I love lavender and geraniums. Have you smelled a chocolate geranium yet?

[Jill Smith]

Chocolate geranium? ooooooooohhhhh. No. I would probably go insane with delight. I have a rose geranium in my house which I lovelovelove, and I have had lemon geraniums in the past as well. We went to two garden centers today, and I agitated for credit with John for not leaving with any more geraniums.

On another topic, have you ever smelled chocolate mint or apple mint? Yumola.

[Rana]

MMMM! Chocolate mint! Yes, I have. Pretty recently, actually. I stopped by a booth with a very chatty woman for the local herb society, and she had both kinds of chocolate things on display. (The poor mint was almost down to a nub, its leaves all pocked with fingernail-shaped "bites" from passers-by.)