How many times a year do you have lemons?
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We only get lemons once each year and we have to make sure we harvest all of them, so we end up giving most of them away. A Phoenix food bank takes them. If we don’t pick them all, we’re told roof rats will be attracted to any remainders.
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Those latest pictures I posted were actually from a Chicago park conservatory.
But re San Diego, all sorts of blooming cycles. First, there are four major climate zones in the county - coastal, inland, mountain, and desert (the spring bloom at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is justifiably famous). The county is the most biodiverse county in the continental United States.
Technically we are in a Mediterranean climate, but much of the landscaping is desert or tropical.
In our area (coastal), our Birds of Paradise and Bougainvillea bloom year round. There always seem to be geraniums in bloom in our pots. Some trees and flowers are cyclical at different times - there are different seasons for trees with white, yellow, red, and purple blooms. Some are summer bloom schedules (like our roses) due to long sunlight. There are some deciduous- the first year we lived here, we thought we killed our fig tree when all the leaves dropped in the fall - we didn’t think that happened here!
There aren’t always blossoms on our lemon trees but there are always lemons. Just once in nearly 10 years did I have to buy a lemon.
But one of the great parts of living here is that there is always something blooming! Spring is best imo, especially if it was a rainy winter/early spring.
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@Marilyn, thank you. Very interesting.
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He was having so much fun running and jumping I just started rifling off shots and was lucky to capture one of the jumps!
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View from the Coronado Golf Club (public course), where we met friends for lunch. The most fun was seeing an automated golf cart - first I thought the golfer had just shoved it into the path. Then it kept rolling. Then it turned. Then it rolled some more. As much fun as the independent wheelchair I saw tooling along at SeaTac last year.
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Son texted us that it was foggy in Seattle this morning. So I took a look at the Space Needle Panocam…
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Yup! Very foggy today!
My dear friend Jeff who died recently gave me this winter aconite decades ago. It is my harbinger of spring and a memory of my friend.
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about to break out from the clouds 
this morning.
I see my house! LOL. j/k of course.
The colors were better than my iphone could capture. Somehow the photos look washed out.
You can do a lot with just one editing function on the iPhone. Play around with the filter buttons and the others.
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