28 April 2008

Quatre Saisons


Menton is not known as the City of Lemons for nothing. Citrus - oranges and lemons - are everywhere. Here you see one of the most common varieties of lemon: the Four Seasons, named for good reason as you get blossom and fruit all year round. You can see this even more clearly in the smaller photo - click to enlarge.

These shots were taken outside a small house way up in the Old Town - and just below the cemetery.

20 comments:

  1. Hello, Jilly! This is a great shot, and I love lemons, lemon trees, and the blue and yellow combination. Very soon I'll be posting a photo I took recently that resembles your shot, with a street sign that has its story, and a branch hanging in a similar way.

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  2. Nice shot, Jilly. I love enameled signs. I also like lemons on the tree. At least those in Florida were delicious. My mother ate them like oranges.

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  3. Great picture you have for us Jilly, reach out of the door and grab a lemon, today
    I'm offering a Big Thank You for CDP support.

    from South Shields Daily Photo

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  4. il reste encore des citrons après la fête des agrumes ;o).

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  5. I love the way a fresh cut lemon smells! You photographed this nicely!

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  7. I think a lime tree is exotic, and it looks so nice, maybe nice in my front yard some day.

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  8. Gorgeous! I've never tasted (or smelled) lemons just picked from the tree, but I'm sure they must be marvelous. Today it is cold and rainy here, so I really needed this little dose of sunshine. Thanks.

    Blather From Brooklyn

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  9. I love the smell of orange blossom and lemon of course.

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  10. How nice to be able to just pluck a lemon from outside your door!

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  11. Beautiful shot!

    It's orange picking time here right now ... I see truckloads going by all the time.

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  12. It must be great to pick up your own lemon just before squeezing it on your fish meal!
    56=Morbihan too!

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  13. Yummy!! I love the scent too. I could just crush the leaves and the aroma would be so overwhelming. MB

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  14. Reminds me of when I was very young.
    We would sneak in to Mr. Jolly's lemon grove with a bag of sugar and feast on his lemons with lashings of sugar.
    They were so sweet.
    (Shame one can't do that with olives ! )

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  15. I guess I'll have to add Menton to my visits in France. Not only it is in the south, but with all these beauties to see ...

    Jilly, if you went to Villandry years ago, I guess it's time to go back ... what about doing the Midi channel on boat and then Loire Valley?

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  16. Blossom and fruit all year round. Imagine that. Given the changing climate I suppose that's what we up here could look forward to in half a century or so.

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  17. The little enameled signs add so much character don't they?

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  18. I have never been to Menton, snif snif. I dared not drink jus de citron because of my fragile stomach but somebody told me it was not as bad as orange juice for the liver, so je me régale maintenant :-)

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  19. I learned so much from your blog. Now I know the City of Lemons. Love the photos of the lemons. :)

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  20. Love the close-up photo of the lemon and blossom. Cool photo.

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