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Gingko Shot

November 25, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

This is the third ‘shot’ in three days and it comes from a London street. There’s a magnificent Ginko Biloba on Greencoat Place in Westminster that I watched for weeks until the leaves were right. Then the sun had to be right and I waited a day or two more. And so, at 11:05:42 this day last year I was standing beneath a yellow bough that is just higher than the single decked buses that pass three or four times an hour.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: street photography, travel, trees

Sequoia and Sunflowers

October 14, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

It seems I was wrong about how sunflowers transport their water to the tip of the plant. I have just read that science doesn’t really know how a tree transports water from the soil to the crowns of trees. Ask yourself the simple question I forgot to ask: how does the world famous redwood called Hyperion get water to its crown 115 m above the ground? It must be properly hydrated given that it’s over 900 years old.

Langley Park Redwoods © Simon Robinson 2009
Curious to see a redwood? Here’s a website dedicated to the redwoods of the British Isles.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, gloucester tree, hyperion, jrr tolkien, peter wohlleben, photo, trees

Brief Encounters: 2002

July 28, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

So, this is journal number 150 and I’m wondering if Siena is a nice place to visit. We’d have spent last night there and be walking down the last eleven days to Rome if not for the pandemic. Our plan had us continuing along the Via Francigena, reaching Ponte d’Arbia tonight where we’d planned to rest for our weekly day off. I think we’d have stayed a second night in Siena instead. I’ll try to remember this for next year, assuming waves of pandemic and panic won’t prevent us trekking from Manchester to Rome in 2021.

There’s a letter regarding life insurance on the counter this morning. It includes a Covid alert that seems strangely inappropriate on a renewal notice.

Trout Fishing in Utah in October 2002.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, colin tudge, fishing, green belt movement, insurance, life expectancy, nobel prize, photo, travel, trees, utah, walking, wangri maathi

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