November 9, 2007
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Weekly Photo Challenge, “Fruit”
the subject is:
”Fruit”
Suggested by: PoetInMeI love fruit and suspect most of us do. My favorite of all fruits are any Melon and Berries, Raspberries and Strawberries in particular. I have a thing for pink or reds in fruit. I seem to equate pink with the best eating fruit but I know the statement is not necessarily true only my perception.
Some photos of wild and domestic fruits or sort of fruit as tis the season.
I have displayed Wild Grapes before. These are immature fruit. When mature, they are a dark purple like so many domesticated grapes. The birds love them for eating and I love them for photos.
Pink Grapefruit probably sits on tables anywhere around the world as it is a domesticated fruit grown in the warmer regions and shipped everywhere for the holidays and otherwise. If I would eat more grapefruit and less of other things I might have less of a weight problem. I do like them a lot. I also like the buttered toast you see in the photo.
Wild or Domestic HedgeApples are a NON EDIBLE fruit from a tree widely used in the past for natural fence. The green fruit has a sticky to the touch feel and leaves a stain on your hands. I have read they are good to keep spiders out of homes. They are as large as a softball and fall from trees with a thunk. I think they could probably knock a man out if one hit him in the head on the way down. Everything you think you want to know about Hedge Apples, CLICK HERE. I found another really great site, http://hedgeapple.com/ and one more as several of you have mentioned this particular image and plant, http://www.gpnc.org/osage.htm
Not really a fruit but Pumpkins and squash make some of the best custard type pies. Gourds make super decorations for the fall and holiday center pieces. Stores and outdoor markets carry many varieties during the months of October through December and there are always Pumpkin Festivals. I love Pumpkin festivals as Pumpkins are a most photographic fruit and there are always a huge variety of sizes for photos. Turn a small child loose in a Pumpkin patch and you are guaranteed photo opportunities you won’t get anywhere else.
I don’t know what these berries are but they are ripe in the Autumn months decorating many a bush in our area. The red is scrumptious but I’m not sure the berry is. I do imagine birds find them to be very edible.
One of my very favorite desserts, fresh Strawberry pie. If we are out to eat and they have this pie, I can’t pass it up as an after meal dessert. I am seriously waiting for the day I can order desserts and meals shipped through as files in my computer. Just order and out they pop from your DVD drawer. Any kind of fruit I want, fresh, fast and no disease or Virus. Strawberry pie is on my list to order the day the possibility materializes. CLICK HERE for an easy recipe. There are lots on the web for this really good pie.
Till then, I’ll keep on taking and shipping/uploading fruit photos for the challenge and to salivate over.
Comments (23)
Oh that strawberry pie looks divine!! Great photos.
Great photos!
That pie is making hungry..great pics
Such a good job!
Thanks for all the info on the various fruit! I didn’t know anything aboud Wild Hedge Apples before.
I’m with Gill L, that pie, yummmmmmy in my tummmmmmmmy.
beautiful!!
i have never seen hedge apples before and wonder how they taste.
Always a great job…the pie looks yummy….
I see you have photographed food again, I should say gastronomical delights for that is precisely what they are. Your artistic flair has made then even more desirable. Think I am getting fatter just looking at them.
You are a talented photographer, the food looks deliciously mouth- watering. The storms were not as severe as was thought so not much damage was done. There was a very bad storm along the east coast in 1953 when 300 lost their lives and this years ” promised ” to be as bad but TG it wasn’t. I live in the North-West where the weather is usually less severe due to the westerly winds which bring rain and the Gulf Stream which keeps the temps. up a degree or so. Thanks for your concern, you are kind.
Marie
That strawberry pie looks delicious. Wishing I had some now! Thanks, Mom!
I love grapefruit! Unfortunately I usually smother them in sugar. Yum!!!! Strawberry pie is also one of my favorites. I liked Frisch’s strawberry pie better before they got the little pie babies. The crust just isn’t as good as it was when you ordered a piece of the big pie.
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i have never seen hedgeapples quite lovely the texture…thank you for posting them!-g
Good post. I like grapefruit too but don’t have it very often. Those hedge-apples are intriguing. The texture on them! And I like the wheelbarrow pic too. They may be squashes, but they are still fruit
lovely!
cool!
The photos are neat . However I didn’ t know the fruit on the third photo . I like very much the berries on the fifth photo . I believe I know them but not sure when I type at this moment .
We think often of you Becca because your collage of our family ( in black and white )is on the mantelpiece and we see it everyday .
About this, recent news of Marina are not so good but I say nothing about that for the moment in my post.
Love
Michel
That was a neat post. I have never heard of hedgeapples before. I want to come back later and follow your link to see what I find. have a nice week!
Once again you have taken the challenge to a new level, beautiful artwork and some things you would’nt normally think of, btw, the stawberry pie looks delicously dangerous!
Some nice photos here!
hedgeapples!!?? Cool colour and shape. That’s really neat.
Very informative! Hedge apples are a new one on me too.
RYC: I am doing ok. T is having her carpal tunnel surgery on the other wrist on Friday. The pics I posted were from Sharon Woods. It is spectacular there right now.
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