Sunday, March 23, 2008

Happy Easter

Hope you all have a great Easter. We get to enjoy a warm one! Here are some flowers and fruits that are in bloom or in season now. These are green mangoes on a tree in our yard. We love mangoes and can't wait till they're ripe. We have been getting mangoes from Conakry. They're soooo good.
Here's an apple that's fallen to the ground. You can see the nut on top. I guess it takes a lot of work to process the nuts that are inside the part that you see.
In our area there are a lot of cashew trees. Now is the time for them to harvest the cashews. The nut forms first and then on top of the nut a cashew "apple" forms. Some people like to eat the apples. Pete says they're not bad. I haven't tried one yet. There are red ones and yellow ones. Some people are highly allergic to the cashew apples and even to the trees.
I always forget the name of these. They're beautiful but don't really have a smell to them.

A pretty flowering tree in our yard.

Some beautiful smelling flowers. These are also on a tree. They smell like plumeria.





2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Easter to you guys too!

Unknown said...

Hi guys, Happy belated Easter to you all. I always enjoy your flower pictures, especially since spring hasn't quite got here yet. I think that one flower is a hibiscus, probably the tropical variety. Here we can grow the hardy variety outside and the tropical as a house plant.