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DaveK
20-05-2009, 21:04
Hi all,
Bate your collective breath no longer !! - as promised please find below a few pics of old (as in ancient) olive trees photographed last week in Zakynthos (and another snap that all visitors to Zakynthos are required to photograph !!)
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/DaveAndSue/DSCF1363.jpg
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/DaveAndSue/DSCF1364.jpg
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/DaveAndSue/DSCF1366.jpg
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/DaveAndSue/DSCF1387.jpg
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/DaveAndSue/DSCF1393.jpg
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/DaveAndSue/DSCF1378.jpg
Sorry about including the last one but they may not let me back on the island if I don't and it is a very beautiful island, particularly in May when it is just a mass of wild flowers.
Enjoy !! (hopefully),
:cool:

Spectral Morn
20-05-2009, 21:09
Hi Dave

Those are the kind of trees that if you took an axe to them, they would pull their roots out of the ground and fight back :uhho:

Nice photos the first one looks like it has a snake wrapped round it...on the right branch.

Nice beach...:)


Regards D S D L

The Grand Wazoo
20-05-2009, 21:25
Those trees could tell some stories, I'll bet.

I once had an employee fell a huge Oak in some private parkland & when he'd got the tree down we both stood on the stump, admiring his handiwork. I told him that the tree was planted when Elizabeth I was on the throne & that we were the first people to see the centre of the tree since then.

This had such a profound effect upon him that he never felled another tree again & went to work as a shopfitter!