Only some trees take winter holidays

The olienhout or wild olive in the centre of this picture, botanically known as Olea europaea subsp. africana, doesn’t miss a beat as it remains as green in June as in summer. Its neighbours drop leaves or lose their chlorophyll for rest periods of varying duration. No gossip about the strange ways of the neighbours happens here.

Heat and spring rain will inspire them all to grow again, each according to the life pattern of its kind. Rhythms of life manifest here in many wave forms… for those that think of the goings-on in micro-ecologies in mathematical terms.