the softer side of pensiero

This wide-open hunk of land just makes me want to PLANT something!

Don’t you agree? I know I sure do.  This is the site I see when I get up everyday and look out our back windows.  Fresh plowed dirt.

If you had told me in 10th grade that I would ever wake up and enjoy the site of freshly plowed dirt, I would have told you that you had a brainworm.  And to get that checked out or something.

But alas, I have become/am becoming/(we’ll see) a lady who delights in simple earthen pursuits.  For example, lately all I’ve been doing is bending gene’s ear about fruit tress. Fruit trees, fruit trees, fruit trees.  Wouldn’t it be fun to have a bunch of fruit trees, honey?  What kind of fruit trees would you put in if we decided to put in fruit trees, sweetie?  Don’t you wish we had some more fruit trees around the farm, darling?  But before you get tired of me and decide to swear off tree fruit forever (sacrilege!), check out the space I’ve picked out for said fruit trees:

For those of you who have never been to our abode before, let me try and set up this shot for you.  Waaaay up there on the left, next to the telephone pole, is our little white mailbox.  These pictures show the view you get as you leave our place.  The gravel is our driveway and it goes back a number of feet to the back of the house, which is where the big planting area (grape vines, etc.) and the shed are.  The pictures below will give you the reverse view – the view you get when you’re driving up to our house:

(aren’t you enoying gene’s new fisheye lense thingie?  we sure are.  thanks mary and john!)

I hope that helps, geographically speaking.  Anyway, the place I want to plant the myriad fruit trees is along this little dirt ally that goes from the street all the way back to the shed.  It’s not doing anything else, and I think it would give it a rather grand purpose in life.  Plus, it’s about 100-150 feet long, so we could fit a bunch of them!  Like at least 5, I’m thinking.  So every time we leave the house (or arrive home) I say to gene “man I would LOVE to plant a ton of fruit trees right here!”  And he agrees.  He doesn’t even get annoyed (see this post).

The only reason I don’t go out and buy fruit trees RIGHT NOW is two-fold: first, fruit trees are not inexpensive.  Second, we don’t own the house, and by the time they were ready to produce tasty treats (1-3 years, I think), we might not even be there to enjoy them.  Sad face.  But it’s fun to pretend anyway.

If we DID plant some I think I would choose……peach, nectarine, apricot, cherry (but only if its a rainier) AND pluot.  If they even sell pluot trees to the public.

What would YOU plant if you could have 5 fruit trees at your house??