Everyone of course knows that in the wet tropics there are but two seasons in a year: the wet or rainy season and the dry months, when it rains a bit less.
But then I noticed that a tree across from my apartment was rapidly losing its leaves, and I mean rapidly, it took not more than two days till nothing but nude branches remained. It reminded me of a European autumn in miniature as it affected just one tree in the neighbourhood. What had happened? Maybe someone had ring-barked it, or a disease…
I had taken a photo when the leaves had turned brown and were falling. That was on September 22.
Can you understand my surprise when a few days later new leaves appeared, and that shortly thereafter the tree was covered by a full, light green canopy again.
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Autumn, 22 September 2012
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Spring-Summer,
30 September 2012 |
