On Oct 5, 5:56 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
Any idea if the grape vines and orange groves in Los Angeles are in a
bad way? Not that that would persuade some people, even if they are
perfectly healthy.
Ho-hum... off to inspect the fields of Mexico.
There is great variety of trees here, and despite the smog, mornings
are a good time to see some of Mexico's bird life. The most
spectacular of the trees are the jacarandas which bloom with lavender
flowers in February and March.
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/df/alameda.html
Looks pretty healthy to me:
http://z.about.com/d/gomexico/1/0/U/3/-/-/IMG_9131.JPG
The Chapultepec Forest is a park of Mexico City, whose name means in
nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs) "locust hill" and it is the main
cultural and recreation centre of the city and itīs one of the
biggest, most beautiful and most visited parks of world. The
Chapultepec Park that is know by the habitants of the city as
Chapultepec Forest, takes its name from the hill were it's located, in
whose top is the famous Chapultepec Castle, that has been been witness
of the Mexican history since pre-Hispanic times and that is surrounded
by beautiful gardens and centennial ahuehuetes (beech trees) that are
some of the most ancient trees of the world.
http://mx.geocities.com/mexicocityin...apultepec.html
Hardly derelict:
http://static.flickr.com/100/293791426_438be04d1e.jpg