Holiday greetings, from our palm to yours

So here we are, at the first new moon after the equinox, and the palm tree in front of our house is showing why it's called a Christmas palm, a species I mentioned some time ago.

The time it's marking is neither High Holidays nor Ramadan -- both appropriate just now -- but rather its own point on the clock.

"They're incredibly confused by the storms we've had," said our landscape architect, Craig. "All the water during four hurricanes last year, and lack of water since. . . . They just don't know what to do."

Except bear fruit on their own time.