Posted on 05/24/2016 2:11:13 PM PDT by bkopto
For the eighth time, Peruvian actor and environmental activist Ricardo Torres has symbolically married a tree as part of an ecological awareness campaign to urge others to care for the environment.
The wedding took place at a landmark location, the town of Santa Maria del Tule, which is home to an ancient 2000-year-old cypress tree. The tree's estimated weight is more than 544.3 million kilograms.
Torres left the house of his godmother, accompanied by a committee of village elders, friends and family, and walked down the Sabino street towards a cluster of Cypress tree leaves to start with the ritual procession.
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Torres placed a ring on one of the tree's branches and kissed it as guests threw rice at the "newly wed" couple.
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At the end of the ceremony, he threw a bouquet at the wedding attendees.
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He has married eight trees?! A bit promiscuous.
How does he know the tree is single?
I think the tree was drugged.
Don’t want to be around when he is pollinating.
I was hoping nobody had made a knothole joke yet, but I was too late.
Environmentalist and actor Ricardo Torres marries tree
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Hmmm. Does Bubba know Hillary is cheating on him?
I don’t know what he saw in the tree - it’s flat as a board.
8th time? He just can’t put down roots.
I don’t know what he saw in the tree - it’s flat as a board
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If B Clinton can say he saw ‘beauty’ in a mummy, I can say that I saw a couple of nice looking nodes on that tree.
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Botany
A point on a stem where a leaf is or has been attached.
A swelling or lump on a tree; a knob or knot.
Did the tree agree to this? I want to cedar wedding license.
He has more rings than a redwood
For those wishing to send a gift, the bride is registered with Scott’s Miracle-Gro.
i regretted it (a bit) once it went up, ha! but its so obvious.
or maybe k-nUt-hole would be even more suitable?
its incredible just how many super nut cases are running around these days... lots of different kinds of nuts, too...
(starting in politics at least since 2008, of course)
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this guy doesn’t sound dangerous (?) but some of them (especially the political ones) can be quite seriously dangerous....(like when they get their hands on the levers of governmental power...)
at least this guy’s herbal fetish provides us a little humor
Yeah, a tree-sexual.
Have he & his arboreal spouses produced lots of little shrubs?
And not one reported divorce from the previous seven...............This marriage is not valid.
Is he guilty of polydendry?
544.3 million kilograms??!! It’s gonna’ be tough to carry that bride over the threshold!
Did any of the trees say, “Yes”?
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