Albert Herdianto Widjojo
Bananas, just a bunch of bananas! Waiting for the time until it’s ripe to be picked. Do you believe that the tree of this fruit can cause be a big problem in my neighborhood?
In my area, and in West Java in general, the traditional community marks the location of their property with a living milestone, aka a tree. Yes, a tree. If the overlay changes because it is sold or shared as an inheritance, new pegs are plugged in; New trees are planted in every corner, depending on the shape and size of the property.
In some cases, there are parties who deliberately misbehave by planting banana trees as borders. You know, in a few moments, that the limit has shifted and the banana grower takes advantage by claiming the boundary of the land is the outermost banana tree from the tree collection. Then, the dispute and the commotion ensued. So also with the tree from this banana before. Before this area was finally abandoned.
In this life, there are always people with such fraudulent intentions. May we always be wary of such things, even more so if such manipulative claim involves the sensation of romance. Ughhh…
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Well, but banana is not a tree and therefore should not qualify as marker hahaha! I always wonder about the trait of greed in humans…people kill each other for the sake of land and borders. And yet, no one really owned it in the beginning of times. Mankind come out of this realm and just started grabbing everything and claiming ownership. A pity, really, knowing we will all leave it behind and the death always triumphs in the end. Tsk.
You are very right, my friend. Human greed always seeks weaknesses to steal, rob, kill and claim the property of others. You are also right, that indeed we humans have nothing, not even ourselves.
Interesting post. Unfortunately, there are more and more dishonest people who want to earn their money in a dishonest way.
You are right, Vidocka. There are always cunning “creative” people who will make every effort to seize the rights of others.
The tree and the bananas are great. I do not like the way some people want to manipulate others. Why is this greed. People are leaving the land as they have come – nothing.
Thank you for your compliment for the bananas, my dear friend Elenka. About greedy… Hmmm… After read some comments I aware that everywhere the same thing under any law such things are always the case. Thank you
That’s a very interesting tradition. Great Photo.
Thank you very much, Della
Very interesting post! Unfortunately, you can find people like this anywhere.
However, I love bananas. I’ve seen banana trees at the seaside here in Bulgaria, but I’ve never seen fruits on them.
Human is strange, is not it? There is a fruitless banana tree? It’s also another oddity…
Maybe they are a decorative type of banana trees, since our climate is not suitable for them to grow.
Yes, I understand, bananas are best suited in the tropics
Another great photo in the challenge…thank you for sharing!
Thanks a lot for visit, comment and your support, Courtney
No problem, it’s my pleasure
Now I gotta listen to some Belafonte…
Hahahaha… Banana Boat Song? How entertaining comments for this early morning, Man.
Any excuse to listen to Belafonte is a good excuse!
You must be a big fan of him…
I love Calypso music, and nobody does it like Belafonte
Aha! Now I know one of your favorite music types.
That’s quite interesting. Similar custom exist in my country, too. Only, we plant pears or plums. Maybe because they are good for making our brandy, called rakija. 😀
About the same thing in your country, I think it’s beneficial for all parties, is not it? Unfortunately, there are people who are deceitful. Thanks a lot for visiting, Zaklina
No need to thank me. It’s always pleasure to see your work 🙂
Awww… It sounds like I heard Rod Stewart sing at this moment…
Still, I have better hair style than Rod Stewart 😀
Hahahaha… I am sure of it! but in my youth, I’ve tried several times to have a hairstyle like him, unfortunately, I failed. Then I decided to imitate Brooke Shields hairstyle.
Smart choice. You must be quite noticeable, those days 😀
Of course! So many men have fallen in love with me!
Hahahahahaha! That might be a kind of awkward. 🙂
Let it be, what matters is that there are pe?ple who like me, rather than nothing!
I have one too! I love bananas
Great post
What if we exchanged, LaJenna? Thanks a lot, my kind friend
Nice picture! Nice post!
Thanks a lot, Georgi my friend
Wonderful banana photograph, lots of healthy looking fruit. I have a banana tree, I think only “Ladies fingers” we are cooler than the tropics they can grow but this next year 2018 will be my 3rd attempt.
Wow… Now I am curious to see what “Ladies fingers” looks like?
By the way, I admire your passion and perseverance who will not give up!
“Ladies fingers”, are small bananas. Australian bananas taste great, all NZ bananas are imported. I don’t understand why we don’t get Australian bananas.Apparently Australians aren’t allowed to grow a banana tree they are only allowed to grow “Ladies fingers” Completely irrational to me.!
I am confused now. Australian bananas taste great, but Australians are not allowed to grow Ladies fingers. How do we know that Australian bananas are delicious if no bananas are produced by Australia? And is not Ladies fingers one kind of banana?
Once I was in Sydney Australia, I ate their bananas and thought they were better than the bananas that are sold in New Zealand. Yet, the Australians don’t export their bananas to New Zealand.
Then a friend of mine lived in Australia,, learnt that most people were not allowed to grow a banana tree, but small bananas that tree which is called “Ladies fingers”.You are only allowed to grow banana trees in Australia if you have a banana plantation
Ohh… I see what you mean now. Thank you for your explanation, Pamela.
Wow that is a lot of bananas. Too bad there are always people in the world to make it harder for the good ones.
That’s just us, mankind, with our greed, Carol. Well, at least today I get a photo of a bunch of bananas. Hehehe…
And you are so missed my friend.
How interesting. Trees marking property lines. Thank you for a little education this morning.
Yes, Kim. That’s what happened in my place. Some societies have adapted to the changing times, especially the developing regions that have acquired immigrants from outside while others retain them, especially those who uphold the values of local wisdom.
This kind of post will be stuck in my head forever, along with one similar that Norman wrote about how they do mail and addresses. My names of houses, you name your house. Fabulous. This is why I love meeting people from all over. : )
That’s right, Ki. Through media like this, we are more familiar with the uniqueness of various nations and regions.
I suspect if the US hadn’t had a surveyor as a founding father (George Washington) we would have a similar problem.
I bet it drives you bananas dealing with it 🙂
We have a Land Law, but some people who still live in traditional values generally ignore it and see it as important and fundamental when they get into trouble.
That I suspect is the way in the US as well. Sometimes it is more about what can I get away with than what can I do to make the world a better place.
You’re right, Coach. That is our attitude that has always been the source of the problem, everywhere, all this time but hard to abandon.
Depending on what state you live in here, the same holds true. Although it is a bit harder to do. You can squat on property, live on it without owning it, even on others property. The land owners can have a hard time evicting them. Also If you find property that the taxes are behind in, you can squat, pay the taxes and after an amount of time, I think it is about five years in most states, and that land becomes yours.
And remember if you move your fence/property line and no one says anything about it, depending on the state, after so long that property is yours.
The rancher next door gained several acres this way back a long time ago from my family.
Apparently, that kind of thing happens everywhere, is not it? The same thing happened in my country.
There is one tribe, who generally can not see an empty land, even when they come as new migrants in a metropolitan city like Jakarta. They will occupy and master it, without any permit. If landowners know too late, they will not be willing to leave, they will say, “Man has nothing, and this land belongs to God, so I can also use this empty land!”. Not that it can not be resolved legally, but settling through legal channels is not something that does not cost, especially in Jakarta.