Growth

It's truly amazing how fast things are growing now that the rains have come.  The passion fruit making its way up our ugly concrete water tower has sprouted 3 inches overnight.  The grass grows by about the same amount sometimes. 

Orange blossom

Over the past week I'd been watching the orange tree as buds started to appear.  Now its in full bloom and deluged by bees.  The smell is overpowering, sickly sweet, heavy and all-pervading but we should get another good crop later in the year.

 I'm baby-sitting some pots of strawberries for a couple who've gone back to the USA for the summer and I'm not just finding caterpillars on them.

Toby