Corralitas Drive: Sweet Almond Blossoms

Photo: Diane Edwardson, February 6, 2013.  Early every February, bees go nuts for the smell of cherry filling the air, as a neighbor's trees explode with pinkish flowers.  (Click on photos to enlarge.)

 

I always thought they were cherry blossoms.  Last year, another neighbor corrected me, saying she thought they were almond, because the fruit wasn't the right shape, despite the fragrance. I