In Europe

 

Trying to capture the sunset gleam on needles of Maritime Pine.

Breakfast: I had Portuguese sardine paté on Finnish rye crispbread. That's really the ends of Europe, Pentti!

European words for "peach" join hands. In Swedish it's "persika", in Portuguese "pêssego". All these words mean "Persian", the supposed origin (actually eastern China). 

Spanish goes off-piste with "melocotón", but anyway there are lots of words once you start looking. E.g. in Catalan:

El préssec, bresquill, auberge a o melicotó és el fruit del presseguer (Prunus persica).

(http://www.benremenat.cat/2012/09/melmelada-pressec.html)

More successfully catching the gleam on the sticky leaves of this Cistus species.

Maritime Pine (Pinus pinaster).

Pinaster: "like a pine", i.e.  pine in the original sense of Stone Pine.

Maritime: I suppose because its native heartland is Europe's southern Atlantic seaboard of Portugal, NW Spain and SW France. However, it is not narrowly or especially a coastal species.

Maritime Pine, a bit later.

The big cones open on the tree, cracking open in hot weather. It's hard to find an unopened one on the ground. 

According to the old tree book I found, it has the longest needles of any two-needled pine.

A pretty grass on this arid granite land.