jambul

Tis Jambul season. And kantam season. And Chunnam season.
Bought the jambuls in the picture on the streets of Panjim. 100/- for 80 berries. Quite nice.
Support local fruits and fruit pickers and vendors. The greater the demand for something, the more the people who make money off it are likely to fight for it (in this case, the trees)

Bird update: a coucal ate the eggs. It dropped one down- mum found some pieces.
Oh well.

Poetree

God grant you trees

to live among

If not in reality

then in imagination,

trees of such variety and beauty

that you can’t help

loving yourself

among the trees.

from Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher by Nissim Ezekiel

I don't know if this post was inspired by the blog of one of my seniors in college.

Or the fact that I am trying to put together a series on trees for my blog.

Whatever it is, I regard finding this quote in a book I borrowed from Goa's Central Library yesterday as serendipity of the odd-link sort.

God grant us all trees!

(Is it also a coincidence that the syllable 'tree' is part of 'poetry'? I think not!)