{"id":7928,"date":"2025-06-08T00:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2025-06-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:00:00","slug":"when-you-cant-see-the-palms-for-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/when-you-cant-see-the-palms-for-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Can’t See the Palms for the Trees 🌴"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few years back, I was deep into building a travel website for Barbados, showcasing the island’s beauty, culture, and laid-back charm. A local hotel owner, one of our clients, popped into the office to check out the latest design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She loved it overall\u2026 but had one very specific gripe: \u201cWhy do you web designers always use palm trees? It\u2019s such a clich\u00e9!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I laughed, then motioned toward the window – \u201cYou mean like\u2026 those?\u201d<\/em> There were half a dozen palms swaying just outside, practically within arm\u2019s reach. She remained unconvinced.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Palms<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Fast forward about twenty minutes. My phone rings. It\u2019s her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out, on her drive back to the hotel, she started really seeing<\/em> the island again – with fresh eyes. Palm trees everywhere 👀!<\/strong> Lining the roads. Guarding the beaches. Sprouting from backyards. She said she gave up counting after fifty<\/strong> 😆<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes we stop seeing what\u2019s all around us, just because it\u2019s always been there.
Familiarity dulls our perception.
But once you pay attention, you gain a new appreciation of those familiar sights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site launched, palm trees and all<\/strong>!
And the 🌴 still makes a regular appearance in our social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, a clich\u00e9 is just the truth in disguise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obligatory palm trees to wrap up this true story… 😁<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A funny true story about web design, palm trees, and how we sometimes overlook the beauty right in front of us- until we can’t unsee it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[504],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}