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Jacaranda time

Posted in Flora, Travel & Tourism, tagged color lavender, jacaranda, Mexico, Oaxaca, photos, popular travel destinations, Spring, trees on March 1, 2019| 18 Comments »

From gnarled tree limbs throughout the city…

purple blossoms have emerged.

Set against clear blue skies, it’s jacaranda time…

a not-so-subtle sign that spring is on its way.

Posted to Thursday Tree Love

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Purple rain

Posted in Flora, History, Music, People, Travel & Tourism, tagged color lavender, immigrants, jacaranda, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, popular travel destinations, Spring, Tatsugoro Matsumoto, trees on March 19, 2018| 9 Comments »

The jacarandas are heralding spring’s approach.

Bathing in the purple rain as the blossoms fall…

Many thanks to Tatsugoro Matsumoto, one of the first Japanese immigrants to Mexico, for recommending to President Álvaro Obregón that jacaranda trees from Brazil be planted in Mexico City.

Now, throughout Mexico, underneath the purple rain we walk. And, this time of year, I always smile, remember, and begin humming Prince’s Purple Rain and Jimi’s Purple Haze.

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Purple Haze all around

Posted in Flora, Music, Travel & Tourism, tagged color lavender, jacaranda, Jimi Hendrix lyrics, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, popular travel destinations, purple, Purple Haze, trees on March 26, 2015| 9 Comments »

The jacarandas are in bloom and there is…

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don’t seem the same,

actin’ funny but I don’t know why.

‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Purple Haze all around,

don’t know if I’m coming up or down…

Yeah, Purple Haze all in my eyes, don’t know if it’s day or night.

You’ve got me blowing, blowing my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

Thank you Jimi Henrix for Purple Haze — THE jacaranda season soundtrack!

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