Photo 365 - Day 96 (Lemon Flower)

Day 96 (October 7th, 2010)
Title: Lemon Flower

Clearly Mabel enjoyed having her picture taken, because when I went out to check on her today, many of the buds (from yesterday) had bloomed into cute and very fragrant flowers!  I would say nearly half of them bloomed and the other half are just about there!  Now, being that I'm not a "green-thumb" (I have in fact, killed a bamboo plant... and it was plastic), I am hoping that all the buds, and now flowers, are a good sign for future lemoniness! 

Course, knowing my luck, she is only growing all the flowers to attract the bees, whom she will then convince to all fly together and lift her up to freedom. She'll laugh: "You'll never see a lemon! Mu-hahaha!" as she flies off into the sunset.  I blame the bee Unions for all of this.

Enjoy!

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Photo 365 - Day 95 (Lemon Bud)

Day 95 (October 6th, 2010)
Title: Lemon Bud

We have a little lemon tree named Mabel, and she sits out on our balcony enjoying the sun and generally just being a tree.  Now, Mabel is a pretty young tree and has so far only had one lemon.  This year, since we moved, Mabel has been a bit moody and decided not to give us our annual lemon.  I thought she was still mad at us for moving her away from her other tree friends, but when I walked out and watered her today, I noticed she was covered in little flower buds!  Woo!  Generally, flower buds mean more lemons!  These buds are pretty small (1/4 of an inch at most), but I am still excited to see them!  So excited in fact, that you get to see one too! 

Enjoy!