I didn’t realize it was this easy to trick a tree. From my balcony here in Bangkok, I can see a flame tree, a golden shower tree, and a purple jacaranda all in full bloom. Normally this happens only in the hot season; maybe the extended hot spell in the middle of our rainy season has convinced the trees this is the hot season. (It’s also true flowers start to close up as though for night during full solar eclipses, while some animals also begin to display nocturnal behavior.)
Now I’m looking out beyond the flowering trees to the expressway which, given the traffic, looks more like a parking lot. Never mind we’re suffering a hugely uncertain economic climate, people seem nevertheless convinced this is a a good time to buy new cars and drive them around and around. Global warming may be responsible for the current arboreal confusion. Human confusion, on the other hand, prevails no matter what the weather.
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