banana blossoms

On the way to the grocery and back this morning, the names of summer roll in scents and colors.  Banana blossoms and laurel leaves.  Star anise and sun-dried mushrooms.  The  bright red watermelons and orange cantaloupes, more melons, mangosteens and star apples,  jackfruits, the beautiful warm yellows of mangoes and varieties after varieties of bananas.  Pineapples.  Coconuts.  Along a street, bougainvilleas and hibiscus, and  bushes of wild berries in bloom.