Posts Tagged ‘peach’

Everything that grows holds in perfection but a little moment.

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

Well, make that three little moments, at least for one special peach on the tree in my backyard.

June 9:

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June 16:

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June 19:

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Washington, DC, Peaches

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

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This is a prized specimen on the peach tree in my backyard, before a squirrel discovered it this morning.

Most years, when spring arrives, the absence of bees dooms the tree’s production to a pathetic harvest of pea-sized, sick-green bulbs that drop in the harsh winds of June storms. But this year the bees showed up and fulfilled their pollenating duties.

So here in July, quick, before more squirrel depradation, I gathered these:

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