Saturday, April 12, 2008

Prunus


It's not usually my favorite color combination, but how can you beat pink and blue at this time of year?

Come late September (with a little help from the bees, a minimum of snow on the blossoms and a ruthless culling process involving many pounds of small green peaches and a garbage can), we'll be harvesting Early Elbertas.

Peaches bigger than a baseball. Peaches so ripe that the skin just about falls off. Gourmet peaches. Incredible peaches that are completely organic. Peaches warm off the tree. Peaches I share with my neighbors and co-workers because we can't possibly eat all of them ourselves. Peaches dripping with flavor.

Whoops! I think my taste buds briefly hijacked my post. Because what I really want to say is...

Even if we didn't get one single peach, the blossoms against that blue blue sky would be beauty enough for me!

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