Sunday, July 14, 2013

peach galore and peach-colored face

Shakespeare never mentioned peach (tree or its fruit) in his plays, but used peach-colored twice. 

Once in the second part of Henry IV, “To take note how many pair of silk stockings thou hast, namely these, and those that were thy peach-coloured ones!”

The other is in Measure for Measure,

“Then is there here one Master Caper, at the suit of
Master Three-pile the mercer , for some four suits of peach-coloured satin,
Which now peaches him a beggar.”

桃花面 (peach-colored face) in Chinese is reserved for a young woman whose beautiful face having a make up just like the peaches in our garden.

We planted this peach tree 2 years ago and harvested 2 peaches last year; this year hundreds.  Katy has removed hundreds of the young ones, so the remaining will grow to ripen.



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