You're a Tree By the Way, Part 3: The Blooming

Apricot trees in New York and other colder places, like Scotland and Sweden and Connecticut, need to be manually pollinated. This is much less dirty than it sounds. Since bees are still sleeping when King Cot gets his (or her) little flowers, a soft paint brush must be taken and tickle each flowers private places.

Wisteria lives in the shadow of my apricot tree. And the metal bars on my window.