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Low-hanging fruit

Sometimes the best shots are right outside the door.

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These are lemons. They’re growing on a tree right outside the front door of our home. Often times, I don’t even notice them. But the other day, I did.

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This is an orange. It’s growing alongside the lemons. I didn’t really notice it until I started trying to find a good spot to get a shot of the lemons.

Sometimes I don’t notice the wonders of the southern California climate. The day I photographed the fruit trees in the front yard, there was a blizzard sweeping along huge swaths of the Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard. I figured it was cruel to post shots of the fruit growing in my front yard when so many were zipping up their jackets and cinching their scarves just a little tighter.

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Not all the fruit in the front yard is forming yet. These are Babcock Peach blossoms. They’re just now being pollinated. The fruit won’t ripen until late summer, when it’s always a race to see if we can get to the peaches before the squirrels do.

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The tangerine tree is blossoming as well. That’s odd, because at the bottom of the same tree, the fruit is close to being ripe. I guess this could correctly be called a “second-growth” tangerine blossom.

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The plan was to see what’s in plain sight, and then photograph it. Who knew I’d spot an entire orchard ten days before the vernal equinox? But I guess the whole point is that there’s a whole universe where you least expect to see it.

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  • YMC March 15, 2013, 4:10 am

    With all this bounty outside your door, who has to go shopping anymore?

  • cyndy o March 15, 2013, 1:23 pm

    beautiful photography, Paul…and you are right, sometimes we walk right past things without really looking….thanks for the reminder.xoc