Hello Again

 Hello again,

Yesterday we walked down the road our car had originally brought us - past historic multi-family houses built for Americans in Gamboa during the construction of the Panama Canal.  Sort of on stilts. Some, but not all, are fairly run-down now at close look but this was a “happening” place with churches, stores etc. in its day.

This road, which meandered its way down to the bridge crossing the river, was absolutely littered with fallen flowers, seed pods, nuts, or fruits (?) of every description.  I am a pod and seed hound!  

I showed you the circular pod I found yesterday - called the Elephant Ear Tree or Guanacaste.

Well, aside from them, there were Jacaranda pods everywhere, and overhead, the Jacaranda trees with their purple flowers on bare branches - no leaves.  The pods are a bit thick and VERY hard. 

And the flowers . . . 

Then there were little fruits -- probably some kind of fig, because the crushed ones seemed to be full of tiny figgy seeds.

. . . and the close-up

I sure hope cutting this in half works.

Hansi, Sunday, March 26, 2023 4:20 PM