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Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts

28.10.14

Green apples, golden pears



My Conference pear tree has been over productive again this year. Too much fruit for one person and as I did last year, I let my lovely neighbours gather as many as they wished. Still the tree hung heavy with fruit. So I have picked my own small share. The split ones to eat now -




The perfect ones to store for a few weeks.




 There are apples too - sour cookers of an unknown variety.





This is the trouble with fruit - I don't have the inclination or time to do anything with them and yet I hate waste. The birds will gorge on any windfalls though and in my garden I have a couple of very plump blackbirds who have done very well out of my lethargy.




I actually found myself more drawn to the spoiled fruit still clinging to the tree.





 Such rich colours and close up, a fascinating surface; quite beautiful in its own right.




This is the problem with living in the country, where everyone has fruit trees and a glut of produce. However, I am bravely chomping my way through several pears a day and they are, without doubt, very sweet and tender. Everything will be eaten, one way or another.