The other day I noticed some strange fruit developing on the lemon tree, then my azalea started to bloom, and tomato plants began to sprout up all on their own. I realized I seemed to have an awful lot of confused plants.

This shrub blooms in the Spring, gets covered with little white flowers, and in the fall the small black seeds form. The seeds are indeed formed, but what's with the flowers?

I don't know why the azalea is so exuberantly in bloom. Perhaps it just is really happy to be in a new pot? Or is it global warming? Or a strange mutant? Maybe it will bloom twice a year forever?

And here's a tomato in bloom, there are also a few ripe and near ripe tomatoes in the background. I can't imagine there are any pollinators flying around though.

And here is a self-planted baby tomato plant, there are about half-a-dozen of these growing in the front, this is the biggest. What happens when it freezes? And the sweet basil is still going great guns too.

The mystery fruit developing on the Meyer Lemon tree, in the upper right you see a normal lemon. They must be coming from the root stock, and there are currently seven of them.

More mystery fruit, compared with normal lemons in the lower right corner. They are bigger, smoother, a different shape, and lack the nipple at the bottom. I presume they will eventually change color as they get ripe.

I decided to get part of the landscape job completely finished--I would fill the final couple of feet next to the sidewalk with sand. This turned out to be an unworkable idea: lovely white sand was irresistable to children, dogs and cats. So I tried dropping rocks and boulders on the sand. We'll see how that works. One lady driving by as I was distributing rocks said she loved the look.

Closer view of the artistically scattered rocks and boulders. Well, the boulders are smallish, but definitely bigger than a simple rock.

Here's the view from the sidewalk. You can see that there are several things in bloom, not just the confused plants either.

So here's a panorama view across the front at the end of 2010. Happy New Year to all, and to all a nice winter's rest!