Mountain Apple Flower

Few photos of our Mountain Apple tree in bloom. This tree gets going about this time of year and the apples will be along soon. The flowers are beautiful and as the parts fall off it is like pink snow on the ground. Saw a number of bees on the flowers, which is a good sign considering that bees have been on a major decline recently due to the mites. A few months ago there were almost no bees even with significant flowers in bloom, now we have carpenter bees and also regular honey bees. Not sure where these honey bees are coming from but could be from friend Michael Kliks across the valley who has a number of bee boxes in his yard.

You can see a bee in this shot of the flowers in the tree.

This is the ground around (include wheel of wheelbarrow) under the tree.