Re: Where is everybody?

I didn't know that. But I remember going to Florida when I was a
teenager...and those trees....I just LOVED them. They even have a
restaurant named "The Kapok Tree" in St. Petersburg where we used to go.



james singer <jsinger@igc.org> wrote:
Kapok is one of the Bombax tribe. One of my favorite tropical trees, 
too. here's a link

http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/14159/


On Monday, August 23, 2004, at 05:50 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:

> 40 acres and NO trees? How sad. I hate to hear that. And I love those
> old live oaks. When I lived in New Orleans, they were everywhere. Just
> beautiful, old trees. I like the Kapok (sp?) trees in Florida too.
>
>
>
> james singer wrote:
> Not much mess to clean up here.
>
> But our paver guy at work has a 40 acre camp site on a lake near
> Arcadia, Florida, that took a direct hit. David said all of the trees
> on the site are down, including some very old, very large live oaks. He
> said there is no longer any shade on the 40 acres, but lots of wood for
> camp fires.
>
> Our office manager, who lives in Port Charlotte, had the back of her
> house [pool cage and sliding glass doors] blown off; her mother and
> father, who's house is two blocks from hers, lost the roof on their
> house. She just got power back today, so now she's got A/C and an
> operating water pump so all those refugees [parents and brother,
> husband and self] can bathe.
>
> On Monday, August 23, 2004, at 04:57 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
>
>> Oh...good. Then it's not my computer either. It's just quiet. I can
>> deal
>> with that. How is the clean up coming along? That last storm we had
>> here
>> took out a large oak tree and blew out the side of my husband's
>> building....but a hurricane...that is really a mess to clean up.
>>
>>
>> james singer wrote:I thought so, too, Jesse. But I
>> was having a bout of aggravation with
>> Earthlink and wasn't sure if it was Chat or the ISP. Still not.
>>
>> On Monday, August 23, 2004, at 04:10 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
>>
>>> Man..the list is quiet today...and over the weekend too? Where'd
>>> everybody go?
>>>
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>> Island Jim
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