Peach Blossom

Blooms from my backyard peach trees stand-in for cherry blossoms.  Each spring I admire them with reverence.  Each summer I curse them for their failure to produce edible fruit.  The bees and squirrels don’t complain. Absent cherry bloomsPeach blossoms pleasingly serveLovely spring display The patio peach tree produces small, inedible fruit. The featured image isContinue reading “Peach Blossom”

For the Love of Lizards

Lizards abound in south Florida. Most are not native. As entertaining as the lizards are the people who hate them, jumping (even shrieking) when one scurries across their path. Though I must admit that I get a little twitchy when I spot a large alligator or crocodile basking on a nearby shoreline. Curly tail lizardsContinue reading “For the Love of Lizards”