samples from season to season and without any record, when I remember and I'm vein, or if I am struck by a specific individual placed in the place I walk past. Increasingly less often know which species they belong, which is aggravated if I bury myself in the hot or I am surrounded by conifers, in which case I hear with skepticism sometimes fanciful reports of who is closer.
enough time has passed since I put out to dry leaves in a recent issue of Inland and prepare myself to stick them in my notebook botanist, a moment before, I the honor to a handful sacándoles some pictures to share with the readers of the Century breeze.
between the pages of the journal slipped a jacaranda seed, caught the morning flight on a Saturday that I passed a pool at a friend's house in Oacalco: its heart-shaped drawing reminds me of a fat woman, perhaps as an incentive for fertility, leans forward and lets us see a great ass. I have also retained a leathery sheet examples that I have no idea what tree they belong, and even the fig leaf that does not remember where I picked up, and that, to encourage me to include in the collection, we should blow off with scissors one of its lobes to fit on the page ...
below lists and briefly discuss six examples: the place where I aim I picked them up and in the case of having it, the exact date. For almost all the leaves I have a photo allusive, if not, reproduce any image related to your place or time. Later on I will post on the notebook more simply with glue smearing one side, sometimes because they both deserve punishment be visible, then paste in the first odd page is empty.
1. Ivy Garden indefinite Luis Barragán
For a long my friend Victoria Clay and I had the plan visit the house of the great architect of Jalisco, located in the old quarter of Tacubaya. I took it on vacation in Mexico, a friend of hers from Seville to propose to the visit, which made a particularly sunny afternoon accompanied by another mutual friend, Virginia Flores.
The garden, upset, moody , untamed, where a great queen pepper tree, has a generous ivy, a species that is not needed but whose leaves retain the form that saw millions during my childhood in walls Anzures nonexistent today.
(March 9, 2010)
2. Palo prieto the birthplace of Zapata
Accompanied premiums and Ana Cristina Barberena, in mid-March last year I traveled a couple of days for the places where he was born, lived and was killed Emiliano Zapata ( http://bit.ly/diYnFr ).
Anenecuilco In the village, his birthplace in what is left it, which by dint of rigorous criteria for recovery has acquired an air of pre-Hispanic area, there is a sort of botanical garden that makes the visit worthwhile. There are other trees standing between the specimen of a species-one of a caregiver guide assures me that stick is called tight.
(March 13, 2010)
3. Glycine of the Casa de América de Madrid
met this climbing vine in the days when Gonzalo Celorio visited when he was my professor at the Faculty of Arts, at his home in Mixcoac. Ate in a corridor overlooking a garden in which there was a young fig tree among lemon trees, and bushes yerbasanta gannets. Properly embroiled in an arbor built for that purpose may, there was also a glycine of extraordinary proportions. (Now that I consult, I can not stop playing his precious scientific name: Wisteria floribunda ) .
(April 2010)
4. Oak Chair Felipe II, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
As I said already in this space, the last weekend of my stay at the University of Alcalá de Henares, in April last year, our friend Professor Georg Pichler we suggested to my companion and me make Brenda Escobedo a visit to El Escorial ( http://bit.ly/eNXK9W ).
After touring the magnificent building, we moved to a place situated at an ideal distance to be appreciated properly in your environment, called Silla de Felipe II. Sprinkled with a slight firmness as (you know: are oxymoron et), between the trees some huge pieces of granite, some of which are carved to look like it is not known when. Of an oak which was hand cut this sheet particularly beautiful.
(April 28, 2010)
5. Thiers Almez number 9
At least until 1974, before the facade of the number 9, rue Thiers Anzures the colony where I lived with my parents until this year, there was only a tree . Over time, somebody planted one more.
From the car, every time that I remembered noticing, especially if I played the red light in front of the building, the tops just profuse and tone of its green like I did believe that there were two individuals of the same species. With the advent of Last fall, one of them lost the foliage, which put in evidence against its neighbor less mutable. I'm not sure that it is, but I think the older of the two, who was there when I was a child, is a hackberry tree, a tree that despite the nine years I lived next to it is now a novelty for me. I cut a couple of pages I spent an afternoon walking below.
(May 24, 2010)
6. White Poplar Street Cozumel
got is shown in Cozumel Street, Colonia Roma, close to where my friend lives cartoonist Ros, when I was looking for a white poplar for my article "Common Trees of Mexico City," which first appeared in the magazine racket and then this blog ( http://bit.ly/bSTUI2 ).
belongs to a specimen that, like Most of its kind, shows overwhelmed by the abuse of pollution and local climate. The set of leaves and make a midrib beautiful set, but nothing seems to back the beauty of color which has given its name.
(June 2010)
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