A Day In The Life Of Evergreen Pears

Evergreen Pears

 

 

Evergreen Pears: From Sunrise to Sunset on a Sunny Day in Early California Spring. February 8, 2018.

Music: Dancing with Gong and Shang by Wang Leehom.

Point to Ponder: A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in many situations in life.

Story Line: In the spring of 2017, two of the three Evergreen Pears in the above video looked very pale and they hardly had any bloom. Trees looked very sick. So we called for the tree doctor. The company sent their customer service specialist to assess the situation before referring our case to one of their internal tree doctors.

The gentleman who came over mentioned he had many years of experience. After a few minutes of looking at the trees he said that one of them is most likely dead and he would need to take a sample from inside part of the other tree for analysis to see if it has any hope and then decide what kind of injections will be needed. He suspected that the years of drought and then the heavy rains previous winter had damaged the tree root system and internal parts. Initial estimate was $$$ for sample analysis. Injections and surgery charges would be decided later. He handed me the estimate sheet and told me to call him when we were ready.

A few days later when we told our gardener about the situation, he pleaded not to remove the tree. He mentioned that trees were over 40 years old and they have been through many ups and downs in weather and bloomed beautifully in past spring seasons. He requested me to give them another year and also suggested that we consult reputed nursery for special fertilizers. From nursery we got advice to try seaweed solution.

I also mentioned about the trees to the guy who cleans our fish pond. He seem to know quite a bit about trees and suggested that I feed them fishpond water which is very rich in nutrients for trees and plants. This worked well because every month I needed to replace 20% pond water with fresh one.

This year, spring has come early in Northern California. And we have never seen these three blooming so lavishly with so bright vibrant flowers in 20 years of association with them.

Note: In one minute video on top of this reflection, we have captured a day in the life of these trees from Sunrise to Sunset. The photos are taken at different parts of the day. First half of video is from Sunrise to Noon. The second half is from Noon to just after Sunset.

Reflection: In life, consulting People with hands-on and practical experience has helped us in many situations; finance, health, legal, dealing with people and cultures. This case was no exception either. Also giving up on things, people too soon is not a good idea and past reflections have covered stories about this subject.

 

 

Comments

[Sam]

I completely agree with the belief that getting second opinion sometimes opens us to new ideas which we may have not considered. It has also helped me in a number of things in life. The key is to choose whom to ask and then making the decision of what to do. Great pictures of your backyard!

[Singapore MC]

Beautiful! Glad you obtained 2nd and 3rd opinions and the pear trees survived the tree doctor! A lesson there for us indeed.

[Oregon]

Very true indeed. That's why we need mentor in our life...

Beautiful blossoms!

[Humble warrior]

The combined opinions to form your own which worked best, great call Anand! Beautiful

[Pacific Northwest. A note from a Friend posted by FR team.]

Thanks for posting nice video of your garden.
It will be great if you take a nap under that white flowers peacefully.
It is unusually warm winter here as well, and we may see flowers earlier than usual in this year.
Opposite thing is in other side of the world. Sea of Japan side of the country gets x5~x8 levels of snow piling up, and causing problems.
Earth is definitely changing its pattern regardless of global warming or not.

This week, both of us got sick probably caused by some food we ate last weekend. Your photo delighted us a lot and accelerated our recovery!
Today, I cam to my office and working regular manner.

[madhuri]

Wonderful Reflection and video. A full grown tree can never really be replaced by a brand new sapling. Just like old friendships/ things and memories. I like the underlying message about not giving up on anyone/ anything too soon. That is the "easy way out" in my mind.

[wanting more]

Looks beautiful. Nice photo of the sun coming up over the fence. Too bad it last for such a short time.

[Rajiv]

Beautiful images! And I'm proud that you're learning to make your own videos. There's a lot of power in being able to create and communicate the world as you see and feel it. =)

[PV]

Thx for sharing these beautiful pictures. I meant to write to you sooner to tell you that the diagonal light and the low Sun angle produced very nice highlights of the upper part of the blossoming trees. And the backlit orchids were just great! All pics taken on your iPhone, I presume?
The best part is that you could get these lovely pics in your backyard without going anywhere.
Beauty is everywhere — if only we keep our eyes open.
Thank you again,

[Ex Rable Rouser]

Hmm, I always wonder what would have happened if Andy learned to run a successful commodity business instead of giving up the memory business and focused only on the microprocessors. They didn’t have to be mutually exclusive, perhaps some fish pond water could do the trick. IMHO, my alma mater is still suffering from her inability to participate in a successful commodity business in all these year. Mind set is just hard to change.

[microCEO]

Excellent sharing. I am very happy to know that the trees in your garden are now healthy. In my opinion, the golden rule about seeking advice is that the expert must be able to explain the reason and mechanism that would enable the proposed solution. Better still to demonstrate an example of success and conditions under which the method is known to work (or conditions under which it may not do so). If he or she cannot do this clearly, it is probably not worth following.

There is a fable from Aesop about a fox who got caught in a trap and managed to escape alive, but had lost his tail as a result.
He then advised to all other foxes to cut off their own tails proactively, for personal safety, and also for eliminating other kinds of inconveniences of the tail, such as experienced when sitting down. The advice sounded good to some, but other foxes quickly realized that the proposal was based on a biased and self-serving viewpoint from the fox who had already lost his tail. (The moral of the story: Do not take advice from one who seeks to gain from it.)

While the world is not so straightforward with people who are only 100% moral or immoral, inevitably all advisors or consultants naturally act upon their own biases and experiences, and those experiences may or may not match one's own circumstances and requirements. As the old saying goes, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

[Thomas]

Auditor’s rule: if you can’t explain your business (proposal, solution, etc) as a process, then you don’t really understand it. Process includes inputs, outputs, and customer requirements. This is the minimum requirement.

[SFT]

Finally I had the chance to read their comments.
For the MicroCEO comments or the fox story, I was just wondering… There is also this saying where we need to learn from the “wise”. Chinese likes to say that you must listen to ppl who take more salt than the amount of rice that you take. Hence, I guess we must understand one’s intention and make our own decision.
Any way, can’t agree much more with Rable’s comments. In life, a lot of things can happen together/in parallel. Definitely something for me to ponder over the new year. Complement or Out shine?