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Spring has slipped into the Tehachapi area, arriving on soft westerly breezes and warm rays of morning sunshine. The Earth has responded with greening hillsides, wildflowers, nesting birds and blooming fruit trees. While Tehachapi is best known for apples, many varieties of temperate fruit trees do well here: pears, cherries, peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and more. Nut trees like almonds also grow fine in Tehachapi, but they tend to bloom earlier and their crop is often eliminated or reduced by late frost. The earliest trees to bloom in this area, in fact, tend to be almond trees. Their appearance is striking when the almonds are in full bloom — their creamy white blossoms with red or pinkish centers are a marked contrast to the dark, almost black rough bark of old almond trees. There are several of these oldtimers on the east side of Curry Street near the fire station and others are scattered throughout town. There used to be one veteran old almond tree...

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