Ode to a Key Lime Tree...

One mothers day about 4 years ago

I was gifted with a beautiful and prolific key Lime Tree.

It was big and bountiful...and was carefully planted in the back yard.

It supplied us with juicy, gorgeous yellow/green key limes

just about all year round.

Lime-Ginger soda: 1 lime and a couple of pieces of fresh ginger...add club soda

Heaven in a glass...and good for ya too! Try it...I'll wait.

Anyway, This trusty green friend had the fury of one too many hurricanes unleashed upon it...

It started to produce less and less fruit.

This spring it had a resurgence and gave us about 4 or 5 tiny

delectable limes...I thought It was coming back.

But it didn't

That was it's last valiant effort. It died soon after.

Thinking of something I could do with the kitchen chandelier...

that would last through the holidays, I brought the lime branches inside...

and started adding them to the light.

I present to you....

Our new Key Lime Brancholier

decked out in some autumn splendor.

will probably hold Christmas ornaments later

Yep...certainly prefered it the other way....

....But, thats the way the Lime Tree falls.

Poor little guy.