Morning fog at Wiang Pa Pao, Thailand; but at 8:15 am the strong, tropical sun is already blazing. These are some of the few remaining lychee trees in a plantation that used to produce 30 tons of lychees annually. Most of the trees have been been cut down because global warming has resulted in insufficiently cool weather in December, necessary for the economic production of this fruit here. In an another image that I posted earlier, you can see rubber trees that have been planted in many northern Thailand plantations to replace lychee trees. Some 10 years ago, rubber was grown only in southern Thailand, whose climate is similar to that of Malaysia. (Continuing with nostalgia trip of using my old Ricoh GRD4.)
