A woman smiling as she picks some peaches from a tree, Lesotho, Africa

Wearing tree bark cloth masks and skirts, dancers representing fish spirits are invited during the season of the peach palm harvest to drink the juice. it is a feast and ritual exchange: the host group offers the spirits large quantities of peach palm juice, smoked meat and fish, and shaman-blessed coca and snuff. the visitors are the costumed dancers impersonating animal spirits. people eat the meat and fish, animal spirits receive the fruits of peach palm, which are cultivated, harvested, and processed by humans. this exchange expresses the idea that people and animals depend on each other for survival and reproduction. vaupes basin, eastern colombia amazon, population: 600

Fungi (Ganoderma applanatum) growing on live peach tree, Hopkins Creek, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Peaches in wheelbarrow near trees

Peach trees in blossom

Peach-tree, Malfa, Salina Island, Aeolian islands, Sicily, Italy

Foreshortening, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa

California, Sonoma, Sonoma Golf Course, Ducks on misty pond at sunrise.

An organic flower plant nursery. A man working, tending the plants.

Peach-fronted parakeets, Aratinga aurea, Brazil, Brazil

Close-up of girls (8-9) hand picking peach from tree in orchard

Girl (8-9) picking peaches from tree in orchard

Rear view of boy climbing to pick peach from tree on fruit farm

Portrait of boy looking up from peach trees on fruit farm

Rear view of boy picking peach from tree on fruit farm

Rear view of boy reaching to pick peach from tree on fruit farm

Close-up of girls (8-9) hand holding freshly picked peach in orchard

Rear view of boy searching between peach trees on fruit farm

Harvesting the orchard

Harvesting the orchard