Monday, June 18, 2007

Machu Picchu: more plants

I really liked this tree, and when I asked my tour guide, "Iman chay mallqui?" he told me an interesting, if slightly fantastical story about it: where this tree stands now, there was once just a sole wooden post, supposedly used for weaving (something like this, I imagine), and in recent years (I do not know just how recent) this post just started sprouting, and grew into this beautiful pisonay tree.

And yep, those are forget-me-nots.





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