Disaster in the garden

There was a bit of disaster in the garden.  And by disaster, I actually mean tragedy of epic proportions.  Remember how beautiful our peach tree was? How gloriously full of fruit?  Well, evidently, it was too full.  The largest, heaviest branch snapped.  And, because it was also a selfish branch that did not want to end up in the compost barrel alone, it took the second largest branch with it.

The two branches together held 102 not-yet-ripe peaches.

And thus, we learned the importance of culling fruit before it becomes too much for a small tree to bear.