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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