This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

To the south of France, Simon Constable in Paradise.

We begin with the climate, of course, because it's been various around the world.

The flash flood in Texas, the wildfires in the Mediterranean basin, and it's summer, it's high summer.

There is a report in the U.S. that we've had enough rain here in the early summer following a wet spring

that the corn in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

is already more than six feet high. That's unusual, extraordinary, never seen before to natives.

So the south of France should be accelerating. Simon, I know to check on your plum tree, a very good

day to you. First, the climate, then the pl plum tree, a very good day to you. First, the climate,

then the plums. Good day. Good day to you, John. The climate has been absolutely lovely the last

few days. The high today, 86 Fahrenheit, woke up to 58 Fahrenheit this morning, absolutely lovely, very light breeze,

not too much humidity, just really, and sunny blue skies, a few white clouds, but really only,

only for aesthetics. And yes, there are lots of basically various types of plums falling on the ground

all over the area in which I live. So there are blue ones, there are red ones, there are yellow ones,

and they're all over there. And what hasn't ripened yet, and as hasn't fallen off as it's blackberries,

which there seem to be gazillions of around me.

So it's a good time of year and I'll be looking forward to having those blackberries soon.

There's a plum tree out of your window.

Is that ripening now?

That's ripening and the yellow, they're the Mirabelle plums and they're dropping

off the tree as we speak and I can never seem to get there before other animals get to them first.

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