02023-06-14 | Food, Photos, Trees
Fruit from a Jamaica Cherry tree. The color is delicate, a pink rather than red. The iPhone (top) did a good job. I didn’t hold the Canon (bottom) steady enough for the 1/80 of a second exposure.
Jamaica Cherry is called Pão de Seda in Portugal and Pau de Seda in Brazil. Silk Bread vs Silk Stick. Both are rather inventive names for this fruit. It also begs the question: is a bread stick called Pão Pau?? There is long list of vernacular names at the wikipedia link. I haven’t tried the fruit yet but hear that the English names Cotton Candy Berry and Strawberry Tree are somewhat indicative of the flavor.
PS: Google translates Pão Pau as “Dick Bread” but Pau Pão as “Stick Bread”. Use wisely.
02023-05-12 | Sound, Trees
Here is a suite of recordings from the Pando aspen clone in central Utah. The recordings were made in July 2022 by Jeff Rice as part of an artist residency with the non-profit group Friends of Pando.
Recordings — Ecosystem Sound
02023-04-15 | Technology, Trees
“If you write out the basic facts of trees, but framed as technology, it sounds like impossible sci-fi nonsense. Self-replicating, solar-powered machines that synthesize carbon dioxide and rainwater into oxygen and sturdy building materials on a planetary scale.”
— Jarod Anderson / www.cryptonaturalist.com
entangled systems
More trees. Everywhere. All the time. Humans were invented and enabled by trees for their entertainment, and for tree trimming, and to pick the fruit.😉 Were the trees wrong to create oxygen for the puny humans? Time will tell.
A city that takes care of its trees is a good city. In the Spring street trees receive a trim. Streets are narrow and there is no room for a big cherry picker truck to park, so men climb into the trees and cut branches. (also no big sign or someone warning people… you are expected to see what’s going on and avoid the falling branches… 🙂)
This is a huge Juniper, the biggest I have ever seen. The trunk measures between 4 and 5 feet in diameter. A steel frame supports the old branches and creates a beautiful space for sitting in the shade.
02023-04-02 | Trees
Yesterday I felt that I should listen to some of Sakamoto’s music. So I did, for quite a while. Today I hear that the great man died. Some people are great musicians, others are great people, few are both. Ryuichi Sakamoto was one of those few.
You may remember something I posted here less than two weeks ago, called 1,000 Trees
Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has written to Tokyo’s governor, Yuriko Koike, in order to protest the city’s Jingu Gaien redevelopment plan. Led by major real-estate developer Mitsui Fudosan in conjunction with the Meiji Shrine, the project will demolish the city’s beloved Meiji Jingu baseball stadium and chop down almost 1,000 trees, many of which are more than 100 years old.
Tuesday 21 March 2023 – Monocle Minute | Monocle
Sakamoto, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, wrote that “trees benefit everyone without discrimination but a development will only benefit those with vested interests and rich people”.
The city of Tokyo should keep those trees and call the area Sakamoto Park.
DMT32 was a wonderful piece by Sakamoto.
02023-03-21 | Environment, Trees, World
Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has written to Tokyo’s governor, Yuriko Koike, in order to protest the city’s Jingu Gaien redevelopment plan. Led by major real-estate developer Mitsui Fudosan in conjunction with the Meiji Shrine, the project will demolish the city’s beloved Meiji Jingu baseball stadium and chop down almost 1,000 trees, many of which are more than 100 years old.
Tuesday 21 March 2023 – Monocle Minute | Monocle
Sakamoto, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, wrote that “trees benefit everyone without discrimination but a development will only benefit those with vested interests and rich people”.
Bravo!
02023-02-24 | Trees
Roughly 8000 cherry blossom trees line the Kawazu river, currently starting to bloom.
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