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About that tree

About that tree

I mentioned in the last post that I was writing it twenty feet up a tree. This is not as precarious as it sounds. We are staying in a well appointed tree house. At least fairly well appointed. It doesn’t have air conditioning, or even glass in the windows, but there is electricity and plumbing, and a large four poster bed draped in mosquito netting. Carib grackles and lesser Antillean bullfinches come and perch on the kitchen window ledge. There…

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