Spring is in the air and the birds know it, and let us know it with their mating calls. The trade winds have died down and first April Showers are coming in early. My liana boraginaceous is already flowering, even though we have only had light showers. But the butterflies have found out and they are doing their work. Right now the air is still and a placid expectancy tells of the change in the ecliptic of the sun.
Meanwhile, my algarroba trees are also attentive to the situation and here is a picture of the leaves and new blooms…
As soon as the first downpours come the buds will bloom and in a couple of furious days the bees, hummingbirds and butterflies, but at night there will be others… de denizen of the dark will come to sip at the nectar of life…
Here is one of many who cavort around the tree. The come in various sizes, small and big, and as they rob the tree of the fruits of its labor, the buds will be dislodged and pepper down on our roof, letting us know that the bats are out. And if by chance this happens on a full moon night, then you can sit under the tree and wonder at their antics, back lighted by the moonlight.
And soon after, when the rains do finally arrive, the algarroba tree will once again shed its winter leaves and don a new set of leaves that are more adapted to the rainy cycle of the astronomical event we call a year.