Fortunately, Japan has just liberalized its regs and will now import cherries from Washington orchards with pheromone-scented moth traps. The moths have a more interesting (if much shorter) sex life, the cherries have a longer shelf life...and get to travel to the Japanese market on a slow, inexpensive freighter. more ›

Oh, hooray for delicious Seattle summer and the fruits of its labor! Find more shots like this in the Seattlest Flickr Pool! more ›

The French call it Le Temps des Cerises, the Time of Cherries, the brief, shining moment when all's right with the world. For some, that's April, when the cherry trees are in their pink-blossom splendor. For the rest of us, it's mid-June to mid-August, when the fruit is ripe: cherry season. more ›