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The Awesome, HUMBLING Tenacity Plants & Trees — Basically The Sheer Will To LIVE.

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by Anura Guruge
on May 12, 2023

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Post from a month ago. This amazed me too. Click image to access that post.

I had NOT expected to see anything. Just a sad, severely pruned back tree — looking sorry for itself. Instead I see these BEAUTIFUL, purple sprouts.

WOW!

6-days ago, i.e., May 6, 2023, ON FIRM instructions (from whom must be obeyed) I severely pruned back this plumb tree. She wanted to me take it totally down. I protested. I don’t like taking down trees. This was one of the trees I had planted, with my own hands, when we moved to this house in March 2007 (i.e., 16-years ago). It had grown into a full, beautiful tree. In late Spring it was awash with delicate pink flowers & soon afterwards a lot of dark, purple leaves.

Over the winter it had caught some airborne black fungus. There was no growth we could see. So, I, after being presented with online proof, agreed to prune it — aggressively.

That was 6 days ago.

Now this.

WOW. I am in AWE. How amazing.

I will keep you posted.

I Think We Better Bone Up On ‘Mucormycosis’ (a.k.a. ‘Black Fungus) ASAP — Before It Blind Sides Us, As Did COVID.

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by Anura Guruge
on June 28, 2021

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Click to ENLARGE. Coverage you can find on ‘Google News’.

I just happened to hear about this, on today’s 11pm ‘BBC News‘ — albeit in the context of India. They have declared it an epidemic. That is not good.

As far as I can see Mucormycosis is not an issue of concern in the U.S. as yet. But, as you can see above diabetics are particularly susceptible & we have a LOT of diabetics — especially among the non-caucasians (& I am thinking, in particular, about my beloved Navajo).

Well, we don’t want to get blindsided again. So, we better bone up on this ASAP & find how we are going to combat it. I don’t think we can bury our heads in the sand. Like the COVID variants this is likely to find its way to the U.S.

This could be serious. Folks are losing eyes!