The Guava Tree

This is the flower of the guava tree in my neighborhood.

The guava fruits are my favorite since I was a kid

and they proliferate everywhere in my country

except in my house called Heaven.

I kept telling my oldest sister Luchie that we should have a guava tree

so we can harvest fresh vitamin C regularly.

Guavas are the best source of vitamin C better than calamansi!

But in our neighborhood

I have to compete with kids

who always get the fruits first!

And there are hardly any store nearby that sell the fruit ;-(

I get obsessed with the fruit 

that I hardly noticed the gorgeous flowers!

They seem to dot the guava plant all over.

And since the flowers are small

I can hardly take a better shot of it

since my small point and shoot digital cam

can only do so much

and I have to be on the lookout

for robbers on motorcycles

who snatch gadgets from careless people

who are busy shooting what delights them ;-)

The guava is a memory from childhood

that still grips into my present world.

That wonderful smell that brings happy days

when I would climb the tree (and I promise I would not)

and feeling healthy gorging on guava and atis and balimbing

with my schoolmate Jacob who lives down St. Paul road.

I wonder where she is now?

And I smile in remembrance

at the memory that usher other happy memories

as I smile at the present one

watching and smelling the ripe guavas

in a property where my friend hopes to use for her studio.

If this plan pushes through I would feel lucky.

After all, I am helping my friend manage her art studio ;-)

For Denise and TodaysFlowers.

Happy St. Patrick to our friends abroad.

We do not celebrate that in my country ;-)