Journey's Return

I accept made my agency dorsum from the southern reaches of North America (yes, inward illustration y'all were wondering every bit I was, the North American continent does stretch all the agency to the southern boarder of Panama).  Thrust dorsum into the mutual depression temperature snows of the always lingering Midwest winters from the volcano lined shores of beautiful Lake Atitlan, Republic of Guatemala inward a unmarried solar daytime was to a greater extent than than merely civilization shock.  Having been dorsum for several  days now, whatever glimpse of the monochromatic greyness skies, reflecting the snowfall clad public of a similar hue, does lilliputian to aid me inward conjuring upward whatever recollection of the unbelievable bluish of the Caribbean Area coastline or the deep light-green of the jungle covered mountains of the Guatemalan highlands allow solitary the festively painted chicken buses which swerve merely about the pocket-sized roads of same mountains maintaining a centrifugal forcefulness that could crusade i to close lose the dark beans, fried plantain in addition to hand-made tortillas that made upward the midday meal.
Conversely, few things inward my travels served to remind me of my ain origins.  Life inward an ecosystem that that never dies in addition to renews itself, but rather sustains itself is real different.  I establish myself wondering if in addition to when leaves always autumn from trees inward the jungle.  Were these some of the same leaves that photosynthesized when the Castilian encountered this land?  Most probable not.  The leaves in addition to thus were inward some perpetual dull shed in addition to increment cycle.  It served every bit a stark contrast to an ecological organization based strongly inward the changing of the seasons.
In a house where coconuts continuously autumn from the trees in addition to bananas ripen on a daily basis, what a unlike persuasion of nutrient at that spot must hold upward than inward a house where a years worth of run goes into a ii calendar month harvest of an apple tree crop pressed upon on i halt past times the savage summertime oestrus in addition to the other past times killing frosts in addition to freezes.  I establish myself i time to a greater extent than reminded of perpetual run that goes into an apple tree crop every bit I made my agency domicile through the winding ridge route of the province were I grew up.  I passed workers with the trees inward the belatedly Feb afternoon at the halt of a long row of trees nether which lay the unwanted branches, clipped from the trees had left behind.   Winter pruning was inward total swing.
 Glad to hold upward back, to a greater extent than soon!

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