2026-04-19
Blossom against the wind
Pear blossom first, then plum, then the apples a fortnight later. This spring the order held but the timing slipped by almost ten days. A cold, bright April kept the bees at home until noon.
I counted honeybees and bumblebees for twenty minutes on three different days. Bumblebees won easily. They will fly in weather that keeps everything else in the hive, which on this coast is most weather.
The young 'Concorde' pear flowered for the first time. Four flowers. I am pretending not to care.