Lemons, lemons, lemons

Noah wanted a fruit tree when we moved to Monterey. We shopped around at several nurseries only to get the same answer - any fruit tree will take years to bear fruit.. Well, we did not have years in Monterey.

As we canvassed the back yard, pulled up weeds, cut away dead branches and cleared out old dry twigs, we realized that one of our trees is a lemon tree. Despite discouraging remarks, and my seriously brown thumb, this tree has born and is still bearing us more fruit than we can handle - we have a continual supply of fresh lemons - it bears fruit year around.

We have made lovely tart lemonade, lemon meringue pie, lemon squares, lemon chicken, lemon in water, more lemonade and it is not unusual for lemons to be our table decoration in vases or in bowls.

What a blessing to find that we do indeed have a fruit tree and one that is already bearing fruit.