Chattering Plants

The fig tree has lost its big soft leaves and looks like a petrified octopus in the middle of a nightmare. What the hell happened to the ocean? It tells itself”, I´m not ugly as almond tree, looks as rough hewn spider´s web that can´t catch any insects. I belong to the family of Moraceae and we produce the sweetest of fruits, we are the aristocracy in the plant world.” The almond tree heard this and said: “I will be a bride in February cast a spell of beauty on the landscape with my pink flowers. “ “Anyway, I´m a deciduous tree and proud of it, without my nuts - a hint of a giggle from the fig tree- you can´t bake a good cake. People ask for almond tarts, no one ever asks for fig tarts.” A sullen silence falls, then the carob tree, also known as St. John bread, and bears fruit too; elongated, dark as farm workers fingers, judiciously says: ” you´ll both be beautiful come spring.”