Baobab trees -Adansonia or the Upside Down Tree

 Wiki Entry taken by Ferdinand Reus

 Baobob Tree taken from Wikipedia and winner of many prize photo competitions - Bernard Gagnon

Isn't it magnificent, yesterday my wallpaper was the Avenue of Baobabs in Madagascar.  Strangely alien, the gold sleek bark and a flurry of branches at the top.  Like the camel it has to store its water and so the great trunk is the water tank. 

It is the Africa Tree of Life and reminded me of a song that was once a favourite.

 

'Shakin The Tree' sung by Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour a Senegalese singer.  A young naive Peter Gabriel and another favourite, Youssou.  It is wonderful that the thing we call a brain connects facts together so sweetly.  Trees of Life are part of our cultural history as well as in our churches.  Anyway you will find the great baobob tree in their background, a rather fat untidy tree but then the storms of life gets us all whether tree or human.

Now I shall go back and find more Youssou songs on the net, my CDs of the music need some sort of attachment to my computer I suppose, I rather miss playing them.  My son recorded most of them for me and I haven't really worked out Spotify but then why should  I?