You should have such a back yard!

It is prime time in the backyard for flower

s in bloom. The fruit trees lost their blossoms a long time ago. As always happens,

squirrels raced up the apple trees, knocked everything down and ate them on the ground. When we had a good aggressive dog, that didn’t happen as much. Now that we have a premiere cat, we keep it inside because it would kill everything it can catch, and it couldn’t catch a squirrel if its place in the house depended on it.

The downside is the dog would bite anyone who wasn’t us. She wasn’t a bad dog in the traditional sense. But if she didn’t know you, bad things could happen.

So, there we are on the fruit front.

Flowers are a different matter. Lots of those! Here’s a bunch.

I hope you have some, too.

Charlie Madigan was a reporter and editor for 40 years. He writes novels, plays music and blogs now as Lightningwriter

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