Early on, I knocked a bunch off the tree as even when they were grape-sized I could see there were too many.

I didn’t take near enough.

The extremely heavy crop, combined with some wind from a storm last week, smashed two of the big limbs on our peach tree.

I trimmed it up…there’s still enough peaches to fill a pick-up.

Poor tree. Pics later. It should recover…it’s an amazing producer…and freestone too!

Mmmmm…peaches. They should be about ready this coming weekend…

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

This year the 2010 Clarksville Fine Arts Festival will be Saturday, May 22, 2010, from 9:AM to 4:PM on the historic square in Clarksville, Texas.

This year’s festival is shaping up to be a great one. There will even be glass blowing demonstrations!

I’ll be there signing books and will also have original art and some prints.

Art. Music. Food. Fun. What else could you need? Come on by and see me!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

The most productive tree…it’s about a 25 footer. It had TONS of large peaches.

This tree is weighed down with them, but they are all very small (very tasty though!)

The bigger tree again…this limb is strained to the breaking point. There are already hundreds on the ground.

YUM!

About 12 pounds or so…

Twenty minutes work racked up about 50 pounds or so, all off the big tree. It still looked like I hadn’t touched it.

We gave away most of those to friends and neighbors…and picked that many yet again to bring home and freeze. There are still hundreds on the tree…and had we been at the house over the last couple weeks continiously (instead of just the weekend) we could have gotten many that fell to the ground (before they fell).

Oh, and none of this counts the dozen or more I ate during my various labors this weekend!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

There are three peach trees in our backyard at the Old Vic. It’s a bumper crop. They are are bowed to the ground with peaches.

They were not quite ripe last weekend, but many were falling anyway…making it quite interesting when I was weed-eating under the trees…

Bzzzzzzzzzz splat splut splatter SPLUT SPLATTER SPLAT! Gack!

(from the wife): “You smell like peaches!”

(me licking my lips): “I taste like peaches too!”

Anyway, we expect this weekend they will be ready.

Not sure what we’re going to do with them all. I suppose I’ll work on making myself sick on peaches this weekend!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer