Day 203

Apparently the violent weather of recent days, or maybe an inner rotting combined with its peach-covered weight, broke off the top half of our peach tree. Very sad. I was back there just the other day when I took a picture of the peaches earlier this week so it was in tact them at least.

It looked a bit hideously gross up close after I dragged it away from the tree the bugs or fungi or whatever had made a gross slug-like gel some places like around where it broke and on some of the peaches. I poked it with a twig because I thought it was a slug on a peach at first and thought oh great, we've got slugs now?! But it poked right through and I don't think slugs would give so little resistance. I should've taken a picture of that. Oh well, maybe later. :)

Day 198

The peach tree is looking very sad. It's weighed down by all the totally useless peaches its grown. I MUST treat it this fall so that next year the peaches will be edible. In theory at least. These might be edible. They are getting bigger and changing colors at least. But they have spots and maybe bugs and definitely the fungi thing that is better than it was last year but I still wouldn't trust a fruit that's leaving sap crystals. Such is life. I wish all the trees out back were fruit ones rather than waste of space evergreens.

Day 177

It was a beautiful day. I spent some of it laying in the yard until a (possibly dying) bee decided to hang out in my personal (face) space. It was a good day for staring at treetops and sky. See the pinecones way up at the top? We should've kept those tree short. Or better yet planted fruit trees. What was my mom thinking twenty years ago when she was putting trees in the yard?

Day 167

Some of the apples on our tree look normal. Most of them are strangely misshapen. We think it could be insects but I never see any in particular.

Day 143

There are lots of tiny, likely to be inedible, peaches on the tree out back. I should probably spray it again for bugs even if the fungal thing has to be treated after the leaves are gone. The tree definitely doesn't look as bad as it did last year but it could be better.

Day 128

I'm tired and this refused to post on twitter or show up in drafts so I could easily resend it. Stupid twitter app, you don't work nearly as well as the apps made by non-twitter companies.

Here are the oak leaves all grown up, except maybe they'll get a little darker or waxier. I swear they grew up in like 4 days last year, not two months. I gave up picturing them daily since there was very little change since April took a turn for the cooler than March. I should post the two or so weeks I did early on, but not tonight, I'm sleepy and have lots to read still for book club tomorrow.

Day 110

Our peach tree has a fungus. The contrast of the red on the green leaves is kind of pretty now but it kills the leaves and ruins the fruit. We've sprayed fungicide on it twice now and it didn't stop anything. It turns out you have to totally soak the tree after the leaves fall in autumn to kill all the spores because otherwise they're in the leaves as they develop. I wish I'd known what it was earlier so we wouldn't likely be losing all the fruit again this year. There are already tiny baby peaches visible all over the tree. Maybe the spraying I've done will at least stop the fungi from ruining all the fruit. We've never tried to pick our apples or peaches before but we wanted to this year so we got the insecticide/fungicide spray but maybe the fall is when we need to do that stuff. The apple tree is still blooming so I haven't sprayed it at all because it could kill bees which isn't helpful for anything.