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Unbelievable Trees

I Couldn't Believe These Were Real! Trees are great, aren’t they? They give us shade in the summer, wood for our fires in the winter, we can build awesome treehouses on them, and most importantly - they produce oxygen! The great Jungles of the world house a variety flora and fauna that hold potential cures for diseases. Oh, let’s not forget that all of your favorite fruits grow on trees. With this on my mind, I decided to dedicate this post to the world’s most beautiful trees. Enjoy!

1. If you read "The Little Prince" you might remember these - The Baobab Trees. This Photo was taken in Madagascar and the reason for the baobab's unique trunk is that it's used to store water for the dry seasons.

(Courtesy: confitalsurf)

2. This 144 years old Wisteria Tree located in Japan, its size is about half an acre and it is the biggest of its kind.

(Courtesy: y-fu)

(Courtesy: tungnam.com.hk)

3. Fantastically named, the Dragonblood Tree grows in Yemen, and got its name from its dark, red sap. The sap was highly prized in ancient times as both a dye as well as for its medicinal properties.

(Courtesy: Csilla Zelko)

4. The Flamboyant Tree is native to Brazil but can be found in many tropical and sub-tropical locations around the world.

(Courtesy: Salete T Silva)

5. Planted around the 1790's, this is the Avenue of Oaks, located in the Dixie Plantation in South Carolina, U.S.A.

(Courtesy: Lee Sosby)

6. Found on the southern tip of New-Zealand, in a place called Slope Point, these are the Wind Swept Trees. Aptly named as they're constantly beaten by the arctic winds who also cause them to grow this way.

(Courtesy: Seabird Nz)

7. I had a hard time believing this was real, but this is the Rainbow Eucalyptus (Hawaii, U.S.A.) which grows in the South-Pacific area. The amazing color variations are natually formed when the tree sheds bits of it's bark as it grows.

(Courtesy: jwilsonnorton)

(Courtesy: Christopher Martin)

8. The blossoming of the Cherry Trees in Bonn, Germany.

(Courtesy: Adas Meliauskas)

9. The 3rd largest Sequoia tree in the world, The President is located in the Sequoia National Park, California, U.S.A., it stands at 410 ft (73m) tall and has a ground circumference of 93 ft (28m).

(Courtesy: Michael Nichols)

10. This beauty hides in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., it's a Japanese Mapletree and it's simply magnificent!

(Courtesy: falcor88)

(Courtesy: Tom Schwabel)

11. Estimated to be between 1400 and 1500 years old, the Angel Oak is 66.5 ft (20 m) tall and is located in St. John's Island, South Carolina, U.S.A.

(Courtesy: Daniela Duncan)

12. Native to Chile & Argentina, the Antarctic Beech also grows throughout the United States & Britain. This particular specimen, covered in beautiful hanging moss, can be found in Oregon, U.S.A.

(Courtesy: Drew Hopper)

13. Also located in Oregon is this tunnel of Maple Trees.

(Courtesy: Ian Sane)

14. The Dark Hedges are one of the most photographed avenues of beech trees, located in Northern Ireland, it has been famous for over 200 years, and was even featured in the TV show A Game of Thrones.

(Courtesy: Stephen Emerson)

(Courtesy: Christopher Tait)

15. These beauties are Jacaranda Trees in the full glory of their violet bloom. They are located in Cullinan, South Africa.

(Courtesy: Elizabeth Kendall)

16. Last but not least, one of the more amazing-looking trees on this list, is this 125 years old Rhododendron. While technically a shrub and not a tree, it gets a free pass into the list for sheer beauty alone.

(Courtesy: reddit)

Birds Of Paradise

This is a beauty ...    Paradise?     They stayed in the forest 10 years to achieve this result.   Do not delete this treasure before having watched (full screen)!   Note the photographer's camera as well as the quality of picture and sound!   Birds of Paradise, filmed in New Guinea    http://tinyurl.com/btj98j4

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The Other Cubicle

The other cubicle......

Travelling down the coast road I needed to use the  bathroom. I stopped at a rest area headed for the toilet,  went into the cubicle and this is what happened ........  "Hi, how are you?"  Now ... I'm not the type to start a conversation in a toilet and I don't know what got into me, but ... I answered ..... "Doin' just fine!"  then the other person said:  "So what are you up to?"  What kind of question is that? I'm thinking ...  this is too bizarre ... so I said:  "Uhhh, I'm like you, just travelling!"  At this point I was just trying to get out as fast as I could  when I heard another question.  "Can I come over?"  OK, this question was just too weird for me but I figured  I would just be polite and end the conversation .... so I said:  "No.. I'm just a little too busy right now !!!"  Then I hear the person say nervously .....  "Listen, I'll have to call you back. There's an idiot in the other cubicle who keeps answering all my questions               Mobile phones, don't you just love 'em!

The Amish and elevators

An old Amish boy and his father were in a mall.

They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, 
silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.

The boy asked, 'What is this Father?' 
The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, 
'Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is.'

While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, 
a fat old  lady in a wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a  button. 
The walls opened, and the lady rolled between them into a  small room. 
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially. 

They continued to watch until it reached the last number� and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order. 
Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blond stepped out. 

The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son.....

'Go get your Mother'  

   

Ford Vs Microsft

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX),

Bill Gates

reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,

"If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments,

Ford issued a press release stating.......

If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash.........twice a day.

2.. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 

3... Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4.... Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5..... Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6...... The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7....... The airbag system would ask, "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8........ Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9......... Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10.......... You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

PS - I'd like to add that when all else fails, you could call "customer service" in some foreign country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!