Well, I was GOING to prose on about how early the peach tree was blooming this year, but then I thought I would just go check out last year's blooms and lo, it was blooming on the 12th of March. So we are only a little over a week early for this:
[album 65561 EarlyPeach.JPG]
It's the very first one to pop open.
It just SEEMS early I guess. Thankfully, it is not real cold at night, at it looks to be good weather for fruit set. The one year we had really bad luck was when it rained heavy through the whole time the tree was in bloom. Soggy pollen cannot do its job. I think we had about 5 or 6 peaches that year.
But I will have to do bee duty for sure, because not only is it too chilly for the bees, but there is a sad lack of them altogether even if the weather was fine. So in a few days I will be out there with my soft paint brush flitting from bloom to bloom. Though I'm sure I won't be anywhere near as graceful and efficient as the bees. And dog gone it, I won't be making any honey either. I would get fired.... were I a bee.
[album 65561 GoofyHen2.JPG]Really, the useless
self deprecating comments around here
are starting to get on my nerves.
Of COURSE she isn't a bee.
She's a . . . .
Human Being.
Not that there's anything
WRONG with that.
Some of my best friends
are Human Beings.
There's no use in apologizing for it.
If God made you so you can't fly,
that's the end of it.
No use whining about it.
Go to your strengths I say.
[album 65561 EarlyPeach.JPG]
It's the very first one to pop open.
It just SEEMS early I guess. Thankfully, it is not real cold at night, at it looks to be good weather for fruit set. The one year we had really bad luck was when it rained heavy through the whole time the tree was in bloom. Soggy pollen cannot do its job. I think we had about 5 or 6 peaches that year.
But I will have to do bee duty for sure, because not only is it too chilly for the bees, but there is a sad lack of them altogether even if the weather was fine. So in a few days I will be out there with my soft paint brush flitting from bloom to bloom. Though I'm sure I won't be anywhere near as graceful and efficient as the bees. And dog gone it, I won't be making any honey either. I would get fired.... were I a bee.
[album 65561 GoofyHen2.JPG]Really, the useless
self deprecating comments around here
are starting to get on my nerves.
Of COURSE she isn't a bee.
She's a . . . .
Human Being.
Not that there's anything
WRONG with that.
Some of my best friends
are Human Beings.
There's no use in apologizing for it.
If God made you so you can't fly,
that's the end of it.
No use whining about it.
Go to your strengths I say.