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Monday, February 25, 2008

A few thousand words from El Tule

Last week Oaxaca drained me. The heat, the language and missing you sorry lot left neither time nor energy for blog posts. I will begin again tomorrow, but for now here are some shots of the much-described El Tule.




I'm digging the leafy sombrero, but what is that huge thing to the right?





As my Mexican mother would say, using the only English expression she knows: "Oh my god."





It's not easy to fit El Tule into a camera frame.


This is the equivalent of El Tule turning sideways. Gosh, doesn't it all but dissapear. The sign says: "I'm a living thing, don't cut my branches. Take care of me!"

One last look. (What's that little thing next to El Tule? Oh, the church.)

1 comment:

Steve said...

That is one COLOSSAL tree. I really liked your photos and your captions (caption-writing is an art, like headline writing) It took me a moment to spot the sombrero.

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