The newly painted Buddha sits by The Path of Enlightenment. He is watched over from The Stump of The Tree of Knowledge by the freshly painted Black Cat of Vigilance...
At the end of the garden we have an oak tree that I grew from an acorn I had collected at The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin. In the last ten years that tree had grown too big for our liking and was becoming problematic both for next door and for our vegetable plot - creating too much shade - so in March I sawed and pruned it back pretty severely. I didn't want to kill it and sure enough new but delayed growth began to emerge from what remained.
You may not get this but some of the oak leaves that have appeared are massive - about the size of my hand. They are seven or eight times bigger than a normal oak leaf. Perhaps a botanist could explain the phenomenon. It may be that in its panic to survive, the tree has sent out bigger leaves to absorb more sunlight and guarantee its survival. I have never before observed anything like this
If only The Lord Buddha could speak. He would surely be able to enlighten me about what is going on with that tree.
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/Nw2TOkU