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Great pics Dean. I love streets like that in the UK. I like all the green shrubs. The pub is soo cool. I'd love to stop in there for a beer.
I think the tree is a form of citrus of some kind, because the leaves are evergreen and look citrusy to me. Maybe a citrange. There are a load of different citrus hybrids it could be.
Jeez, the streets in the UK like that remind me a lot of Philadelphia in a way.
Thanks
Yeah it's a nice little pub. They have some nice beer on tap too.
Alot of the streets in this area look like this. A couple of streets down, the houses get much bigger than here, and the houses at the other end of the street are large too, but generally they're look like in the picture.
The fruit is a Quince. Plenty of wild ones around here from the mining days. Makes a mean wine, or a conserve.
Nice photos, looks very Coronation Street.
Some serious flooding there. It doesn't really flood here -along with lots of other weather events that don't happen here.
Ah thanks. I've never noticed the plant before, but then I noticed this one and another garden also had them. Are they nice to eat straight off the tree?
Thanks, I guess it is quite similar to Coronation Street. Bit nicer around here though I might add
Ah thanks. I've never noticed the plant before, but then I noticed this one and another garden also had them. Are they nice to eat straight off the tree?
They're okay if left on the tree for a long time, although birds and wasps usually get to them first. The taste is like a mixture of Pear and Guava
Not with all those dead trees and not one hint of green. Does Chicago even have one broadleaf evergreen shrub around lol. Must be a very drab gray city in winter.
Yes the sun is noticeably lower, my back garden isn't getting any sun at all now. The famous McDonald's on Bugibba front (possibly the most scenic Maccy D's in the world) has been closed down They are moving it into a bog standard McDonald's style building in Bugibba Square...
Anyway, I had to pop down to the Post Office this afternoon so took a few more shots, especially of some of the exotics growing locally. It was sunny, but quite windy & around 19C/66F...
Windswept palms on the seafront...
A couple of big Norfolk Island Pines growing in the grounds of a hotel
Some young Queen palms outside another hotel...
The Maltese flag standing proud in the blustery wind today...
Swiss Cheese plant (Monstera) in a front garden...
Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina)...
Big Plumeria, still had a few flowers on it...
Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae)...
Big Dracaena marginata...
I wouldn't be Christmas without Poinsettia's. These are hard pruned back in spring, hence the long single stems, rather than being allowed to grow into a tree...
Bougainvillea...
A couple of smaller Norfolk Island Pines, one of my favourite trees...
Nice cactus (Euphorbia sp.)...
Red Hibiscus (rosa sinensis)...
A large pink flowered Hibiscus arnottianus, which is native to Hawaii...
Wow, what a bright and beautiful place to spend a winter. Consider yourself very lucky! Love all the tropical and subtropicals growing there. That place gives Miami a run for its money.
A friend of mine just went back from La Gomera island. Sounds great for hiking, though not as diverse as Gran Canaria or Tenerife. Have you been there?
To continue on the bare trees & ground + grey skies theme:
There were more seagulls than pigeons. In fact I see more seagulls 250 km inland in Paris than right on the coast in Nice.
Santa's sleigh! Rides every 30 minutes from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm!!
Some side street nearby:
Spoiler
Leaves are still hanging on plane trees. Bummer.
But the grass is so green in Europe it never looks nearly as gray and bland as around the eastern US in winter. Even in North Carolina they have brown grass and dead trees.
But the grass is so green in Europe it never looks nearly as gray and bland as around the eastern US in winter. Even in North Carolina they have brown grass and dead trees.
So brown grass is fine as long as it's in the summer rather than winter?
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They are moving it into a bog standard McDonald's style building in Bugibba Square... 
