I had anticipated this for a while, but today I finally witnessed the first peach blossom flowers opening up.
Very exciting indeed, as - although we have eaten a couple of dozen yummy peaches from this tree, last Summer - we hadn't seen its flowers. After all, we only acquired this plot of land, last July.
In other words, this is our first Spring here.
Just before that, I had noticed many white flowers on a series of wild plum bushes on our land. I am glad that we decided to leave loads of these guys out there, even though they are prickly.
It is extra exciting that we have two actual plum trees directly next to our house. One is starting to flower just now and the other, directly near our wall, is a bit behind. It has plenty of buds on it though. Last Summer we had 3 to 4 kg of plums from one of the trees. The other was emptied by someone else. Possibly the previous owner of the land or the neighbor.
After photographing the wild plum flowers, I spend a bit of time freeing up some more of these bushes by removing brambles and ivy and then adding the latter to our improvised hedgerow, made up of cuttings and leaf litter.
Later, near our old well, around which we cleared loads of brambles - snip by little snip - I marvelled at these turkey tail mushrooms.
I believe they are not directly edible but they do have powerful medicinal properties when dried.
Correct me if I'm wrong, @clareartista .
Our olive trees looked especially nice, in the sunshine and so did the daisies. We have thousands of them and loads of other ( even more ) colorful flowers.
The weather these days is a perfect balance of sunshine and rain, warmth and cold. Nature is happy and so are we.
You gotta love Spring!