PEACHES

While the world was waging wars, campaigning, manufacturing new countries, the bees were busy making their own contribution. Now their work is done, mission accomplished, and the tree has entered a new phase, a quieter one.
These peaches are not nearly as big they appear in the picture, really not even the size of an olive, but they seem to be healthy and plentiful, so maybe...

But what am I thinking? A twenty-four hour surveilance, seven days a week, would not be enough to keep the critters from raiding the delectable fruit. Why, the pesky things, they can't seem to wait, they start systematically stealing the peaches long before they ripen. Squirrels and birds right under our noses in plain daylight, possums and racoons under the stealth of night. Not even the dogs can keep the theives at bay.