One store-bought peach with several home-grown peachcots.

There were some strange sounds in the house when they landed on our chimney cap:

Our six year old peachcot trees, planted as seedlings, finally produced a crop of fruit this summer:



(A peachcot is a peach-apricot hyrbrid.)

There are some interesting plants around here.

After a rain, these so-called “rain lilies” pop up out of nowhere:

The “century plant” is an agave that spends years or even decades looking like a medium-size aloe, until one spring it decides to bloom and sends up a 15 to 25 foot stalk:

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