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Trees365 39/365, originally uploaded by lisibo.

I know! I know! I didn't take this picture today but I need a pick me up.

The despondency of waking to sleet and snow, and freezing weather, having just left this ... I need to be reminded that the sun DOES shine. So lovely and such a treat to get a 'sunshine top up' in February!

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Trees365 38/365, originally uploaded by lisibo.

couldn't let my trip to Sevilla go by without an orange tree now could I?

This 'naranjo' is in the small street that linked our hotel to the Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, home of Real Bétis Balompie.

Blissful - orange, olive and jasmine trees in 25 degree heat, the sun shining, a fountain in the middle of the road, dando un paseo a la española :oD

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Trees365 37:365, originally uploaded by lisibo.

You could argue that this is a bit of a cheat as the picture was taken the day before and not by me, but this tree saw one of the best and funniest moments of my stay in Sevilla. So fun that I didn't take a decent picture so Lisa came to the rescue and let me use hers from her sightseeing before I arrived!

I had no idea that when I turned a corner down a little street and walked through an archway that I would be transported to Pandora and come across the Tree of Life. I was forced to sit down and contemplate the sight - at which point a Spanish guard came along and informed me that he had to shut the gate so could I move please! Adopting a relaxed Spanish attitude to moving, Helena and I managed to get separated from Lisa and Félix, but spent a lovely 30 minutes trying to find them, confused by their assertion that they were 'next to Starbucks' until we realised that we were next to a different Starbucks that was only 50 yards away!