And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Bastard landlord cut down two rows of peach trees that had been here for 50 years, to put in useless sidewalks for the zero people in wheelchairs that have ever needed them here.
After I scrupulously de-pested (look up peach wasps some time), pruned, fed, watered, and tended my tree for the last 25 years, I now have to buy my peaches.
I can taste that! Great picture..
ReplyDeleteNothing better than a fresh off the tree home grown Peach. Candy created by God, improved genetically (GASP!) by man.
ReplyDeleteIf you-all have never had a Colorado western slope peach, you have not known Nirvana.
ReplyDeletelake inversion effect NE Ohio my favorites.
Deletepeaches have to be just-right ripe. a sales window of maybe twenty days in NYC. at that, never seen a ripe nectarine.
It's a pity, but peach pits contain a potentially dangerous chemical called amygdalin that can creates poisonous cyanide when digested.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you ought to forget about eating the pits.
ReplyDeletePeachy keen.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid one of my favorite summer rituals was a fresh peach on a bowl of cheerios.
ReplyDeletecan't stand the fuzzz but do like peaches. clingstones taste the best.
ReplyDeleteI envy that man.
ReplyDeleteBastard landlord cut down two rows of peach trees that had been here for 50 years, to put in useless sidewalks for the zero people in wheelchairs that have ever needed them here.
After I scrupulously de-pested (look up peach wasps some time), pruned, fed, watered, and tended my tree for the last 25 years, I now have to buy my peaches.