Flower then fuzz

Peach blossoms

Peach trees at Applecrest Orchard

There is a haze of pink along Route 88 in Hampton Falls now. I saw it Sunday evening and went back with my camera on Tuesday.

After apples, peaches are the second largest commercial fruit crop in the United States. The New Hampshire Seacoast is pushing the northern limits of their range.

Peaches come from China by way of Persia then Rome. They made it to the Americas with the conquistadors. In China the gods live forever because they eat the peaches of immortality every six thousand years, and the juice runs down their chins.

What peaches and what penumbras!

– Allen Ginsberg, shopping for images at A Supermarket in California