DEP Photo Column — Some of Earth’s Mysteries — Prompt IV

Annelise Lords
Dancing Elephants Press
6 min readMar 5, 2024

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What do you see, when you look at me?

Image by Annelise Lords

Nature is mysterious as it’s amazing. Look at the two above. The beautiful flower is the yellow passion fruit blossom. Other countries have the purple fruit, but in Jamaica, we have the yellow ones. Yes, it grows from left to right. How? How is this possible? It grows wild across Jamaica and is used to make juices. My favorite is the passion pineapple drink with ginger.

How did this happen?

Passion fruit is an exotic purple fruit that can be a healthful addition to a balanced diet. Passion fruit may offer numerous health benefits as it contains high levels of key vitamins and minerals and is rich in antioxidants.

The Nase-berry blossom is to the left. The fruit to the right. These fruits are so delicious, that birds live on this fruit so we can’t pick Nase-berry when they are ripe. We have to pick them when they are fit. Birds know when they are ripe as you can hear them enjoying their feast in the trees. They warn us that it’s time to pick.

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