Craig, Posting pictures here is pretty easy. I've posted instructions in this forum many many times, but will do it again in hopes it will help. One of the easiest ways to provide your photo to be embedded into a post is to upload it onto an image hosting site such as Photobucket, Flickr, etc. That should be pretty straight forward, and the individual sites will give instructions on how to get your photos uploaded to their site when you sign up. Once your picture has been uploaded, find its web address by right clicking on the image and copying the image location. Some sites may even provide the address in a text box below the photo for your convenience. Let's say, as an example, that the address of the picture you want to post is http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg To embed the picture into a post, use the command img src="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg"> For larger pictures, it would be very very very helpful to add a width attribute. Do do so, just add width=600 after the second quotation mark. 600 is a reasonable width for Gardenweb forums and won't mess up the formatting of your post causing people to have to pan around to read the text. So, for larger pictures, the command above could be rewritten as: img src="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg" width=600> Note that I had to use special characters to get the commands above to show up here without turning into pictures, but you can use them as shown (with the correct image location, of course).

Joni, now is the time to act. First thing is to get the fungicides going; start with a liquid copper/dormant oil mix at this time, and after the tree blooms spray with captan. Those two actions will get you into the cycle of treating your tree, but must be followed up with a succession of treatments that you can find on the extension service's website. I recommend digging out the soft wood and eggs; discard. Peaches need to be thinned to about one every eight inches. This will take stress off the limbs and give you nicer fruit. Do this when the peachlets are about the size of a pea or marble. Even so, if your limbs are loaded with big, juicy queens, you will need to prop up the limbs for support. You should have a nice harvest this year if you follow these steps. Good luck. Misterbaby.

Interesting flora - what I find online says zone 5-9 and none of the range maps I have found indicate it resides in Canada. Range is up to New York and Pennsylvania, though. It sure would not be a surprise to find it in Canada. Canadianplant, are you near the border around NY/Pennsylvania? John ps - and bboy is right about e. alatus being so invasive so that is, IMO, the most likely by default. A close up of twigs and foliage arrangement as well as bark might help the the more knowledgeable on here (like the two above that already responded) attain a positive ID

It's shedding leaves now because peaches are not evergreen - even in Arizona!! The discoloration is perfectly normal for this process and the tree should bud out and re-leaf in spring with normal looking foliage. I don't see any "black nodules" on the branches - only the presence of latent buds. Can you provide photos of these nodules so we can see more clearly?