Immortelle

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Whenever the immortelle trees are in bloom I remember my country’s national song, written by Majorie Padmore when Trinidad and Tobago became an independent nation from Great Britain, and sung a hundred times as a school child:

God bless our nation
Of many varied races
May we possess that common love
That binds and makes us One.
Let it be known around the World
That we can boast of Unity
And take a pride in Our Liberty.

God bless our isles
Of tropic beauty rare
Of flaming poinciana
And shady immortelle



The warm and sparkling waters
That beat upon our shores
Beat out a tune that seem to tell
We take a pride in Our Liberty.

These Mexican flame vine at the agricultural center were just picture perfect, too.