The Tall Trees

Palm trees are one of my favorite subjects to photograph, and through the years, I've taken LOTS of photos of them. Long before I dreamed of making Maui my home, I was told by a psychic that I would be moving faraway to the land of the "tall trees" and that I would love these trees. I didn't understand what she was talking about then, but now I do!

Here's the website of an artist who paints these beautiful palm trees.

Real or Unreal?

I've fallen in love with reflective surfaces because of the artistry of many of you daily photo bloggers who capture the most gorgeous reflections in your photos! So everywhere I travel around these days, I search out photo ops for reflections. This week I discovered a sign in the window of a business which was provocative in this respect: the palm trees are embedded in the sign while the trees reflecting from the sign are real.

Full Moon Over Maui

Today is the Full Moon in Libra, and so I'm featuring a nearly Full Moon photo I took two nights ago outdoors on our deck as the moon was growing. The weather at night on Maui has been cool and breezy, and the palm fronds have been clacking in the breeze. I use the word "clacking" for the sound of the palm fronds because there is no other word to describe the sound the palm fronds make, especially at night when the other sounds have died down. We have six large coconut palms on our property which make lovely clacking music together when the winds blow, or they could be chattering to each other as per the definition of 'clacking' noted below.

Definition of clacking from The Free Dictionary:

v. clacked, clack·ing, clacks

v.intr.

1. To make an abrupt, sharp sound, as in the collision of two hard surfaces.

2. To chatter thoughtlessly or at length.

3. To cackle or cluck, as a hen.

v.tr.

To cause to make an abrupt, sharp sound.

n.

1. A clacking sound: the clack of an old-fashioned typewriter.

2. Something that makes a clacking sound.

3. Thoughtless, prolonged talk; chatter.

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