Today’s trip to water at the community garden. My seedling peach has two fruits left. I’m really hoping the ground squirrel continues to miss these.

Grafted this year, ‘Suntan’ apple is in the pink blossom stage. I’ll need to eliminate any fruits that result, but I’m letting it bloom to cross-pollinate ‘Spitzenburg’ and any other older grafts in bloom right now.

‘Rio Oso Gem’ peach grafts still haven’t taken off, but most of the other peach/nectarine grafts have. ‘Rio Oso Gem’ does show some movement under the Parafilm so I think it was just later to break dormancy.

Lizards doing pushups.

The Student Farm continues to look pretty, partly due to California poppies in bloom, and partly due to various foliage colors, even young reddish chard (?) in the field.

Although I try to pick less popular pretty areas to walk, the California poppies along the fenceline attracted quite a few people today so I had to flee.

I sought out peas and quiet.

I got it for a few minutes.

Almonds are closely related to peaches, as you can see here. Fuzzy fruits. We eat the seeds. Botanically, they’re not nuts (acorns are botanically nuts, for instance). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(fruit)#Botanical_definition

When people talk fireblight, they tend to focus on pear & apple, but it can hit loquats and other Rosaceae. Here you can see underneath a charcoal black infructescence from last season.

Two blackberry flowers of different ages. You can see the difference in the color of the anthers.

An epicormic shoot of jujube (Ziziphus jujuba), with some bonus lichens.

Tulip (Tulipa x) in a sea of California poppy (Eschscholzia californica ) foliage.

Aquilegia in bloom.

Forget-Me-Not, I think.

I forgot.

Some Myosotis species.