Way back in the very early 1980s, I was captivated by the PBS series, The Flame Trees of Thika, based on the Elspeth Huxley memoir, by the same name, about her early years in Kenya.
We had a black and white TV back then and so, if they even showed the “Flame Trees,” they never “registered.
However, here I am in Oaxaca, Mexico and I’ve got two African Tulip Trees (aka, Flame of the Forest) hovering over my terrace, bursting with color, providing a modicum of shade, feeding the hummingbirds, and adding to the enchantment of Casita Colibrí.
There was something about the sky, the light, and the trees this morning…
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So lovely! I’m missing Oaxaca already and I’ve only been gone for a day! Hope to see you in October and sad we didn’t get some time together in July.
October, it is!
I LOVED the Flame Trees of Thika! Haily Mills I believe was in that series but I don’t know the brunettes name.
My favorite line when the women were talking about the “current situation”, and it went like this: “I know what I would do. I would do what I wanted to do, eventually regret it, but never admit it”