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Celebrate The Pink Moon, The Peach Moon
Peach trees bloom throughout Los Alamos as shown here Saturday. Photo by Zhen Huang
By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos
Monday night we celebrated the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, the fourth full moon. In Western culture it is called Pink Moon. In Chinese culture, it is called Peach Moon.
The peach tree is one of the most planted easy growing trees in our backyard here in Los Alamos. Peach trees greet us with beautiful pink blooms in early spring and reward us with sweet juicy fruits throughout autumn.
You may know that peach trees are native to China where Chinese started cultivating peaches some 3000 years ago.