Monthly Progress #80

It has been a full 7 years... Today is the 7th anniversary of December 17th, 2010. Time has a way to travel faster than one can imagine. You look away, and one year has silently gone by... year after year, month after month, week after week, day after day, hour after hour... a new year has arrived. Here we are at the waning days of 2017. A new year is dawning in just 2 weeks. The ficus tree is dormant, putting out still young growths just to prove that it is full of life inside its trunk and branches. Seven years? Consider this: "The oldest verified age for an angiosperm tree is 2293 years for the Sri Maha Bodhi Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa) planted in 288 BC at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka; this is also the oldest human-planted tree with a known planting date." Ref.: "http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1181." So, our infant tree here has a lot to look up to and we certainly will not be around to see how it will fare about 23 centuries in the future, in the year of 4,310!.