81. Shoppers clustered around tables laden with palm fronds, citron, myrtle strands and willow branches. 82. Singing, dancing and waving palm fronds, they wove among taxis whose drivers were hammering their horns in celebration. 83. Soft, tropical hues shimmer from walls and clothes while oversized palm fronds and winding vines carpet gardens in green. 84. The crowds, some carrying palm fronds plastered with flowers, clogged the streets surrounding the mosque and swarmed over his coffin as it was carried to the graveyard. 85. The ocean smacked up against seawalls and palm fronds littered roads left dark from downed power lines and deserted by wary residents. 86. The women weave a rooftop of palm fronds for protection from the never-ending drizzle and the children clip kindling for the fire. 87. Their palm fronds represented the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, commemorating the palm branches laid in his path by his followers. 88. Thousands of supporters grieved in the streets for Laurent Kabila, crying and waving palm fronds as a motorcade bearing his casket wound through the city. 89. Under sunny skies in central and southern Italy, many people went to the polls directly from church after Palm Sunday services, bearing palm fronds or olive branches. 90. Workers recently attached plastic palm fronds to the bare trees on Freedom Square, facing the American embassy. |