In my previous post I mentioned my observation (from innumerable walks around the old cemetery close to where I live) that trees seem to hold on longer to their leaves on the branches that grow very close to the streetlights.
Today was a grey and gloomy day, and I did not get out until around 3 pm. The streetlights were lit up while I was still out, which gave me an opportunity to gather some more evidence for my theory... I'll let the photos speak for themselves:
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Meike (in a comment) was also asking after Barbie & Skipper. For anyone who happens to have missed the previous adventures of these two, perhaps I should repeat the explanation that around 1½ year ago I decided to donate a bunch of old Barbie dolls from my youth to a charity shop. (Before that, they had all been spending the last 50+ years in various storage rooms, packed away together in one big box.) At the last minute I decided to keep two of them after all (while six went off to unknown destinies). The two that I kept now live on a shelf in my sitting room, and have appeared on this blog now and then to show off outfits sewn by my mum back in the 1960s.
As by now they have been "out in the open" for over a year, some of my readers have already seen most of the clothes that I kept for them. But since Meike asked... Yes, they did get "dressed up" for the Halloween/All Saints' this year too (I think in the same outfits as last autumn); but have now "dressed down" to more casual autumn wear again. ;)
The barbie dolls are classic
ReplyDeleteYes Ro, they are!
DeleteI love the orange dress and don't remember it. of course I have carried my coloring and cut and paste skills into my old age and the memory is sure not what it used to be.. I like to see them in the outfits you mother made for them, she was really talented
ReplyDeleteSandra, yes she was, and I probably appreciate that more now than I did back in my childhood (when I kind of just took it for granted!)
DeleteI wonder how much of the trees' behaviour is due to the warmth, and how much to the light emanating from the street lamps. Probably a combination of both. Most interesting!
ReplyDeleteAs for Barbie and Skipper, I remember the snazzy orange dress, and Skipper looks so cosy in her brown jumper and warm jersey (?) trousers! Not long now and they will start preparing for Christmas :-)
Meike, I doubt that these street light give off much warmth as they're fairly new and probably LED lights (?) Not really my area of expertise, though! ;)
DeleteI like visiitng cemeteries in Winter, they have a kind of restfulness about them. Most of them that are here in this region are full of old gold miners and their families.
ReplyDeleteAmy, a rather more varied crowd here, I think. Some old headstones include professions as well - almost exclusively for the men, though, and probably mostly on the graves of "prominent" families - as poor people are less likely to have been able to afford big monuments with a lot of text...
DeleteI, too, wonder if the proximity of the lights has kept the leaves on the trees. I'm surprised that no-one has done an official survey.
ReplyDeleteBarbie and Skipper always look so smart, and I'm envious of their wonderful selection of outfits!
Carol, for all I know, scientific studies of that kind may well have been made, without me ever having come across them... (I haven't even tried googling it!)
DeleteI am quite glad that I did decide to keep these two dolls + a selection of all the clothes that my mum made for them all those years ago. (Much better to have two sitting on a shelf where I see them daily, than eight packed away in a box never opened!)
The leaves/light situation is a fascinating one. I can't test it out here in the township because there are very few trees or lights in near proximity.
ReplyDeleteGraham, I guess it's my habit of repeatedly walking the same paths with camera in hand that sometimes makes me observe "little things like that"... ;-)
DeletePerhaps those leaves are like us, we want to stick around where there is warmth and light. I'm glad you hung onto those two Barbies and also that the others are giving someone else a great amount of joy. x
ReplyDeleteKay, I hope so too :)
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