Walking in the neighborhood 03-06-21

Looks like there will be a huge lemon crop next year.  This year was pretty heavy, but every tree I see is almost solid blossoms and still a lot of unpicked fruit.  One family hangs a basket in their street tree (a crape myrtle) and fills it with free lemons.  They are Myer lemons, the best kind, which are very common around here.  

I wish I could post the fragrance, it is fabulous.  In the 50s when I first moved to SCalifornia I could smell it while driving down the freeway.  But there are very few lemon or orange groves here now, mostly the trees are just grown in yards.  There is a tree upwind from our house, so we get the hint on the breeze. 

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