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Focusing on Fruit

Day 4 of my photo challenge

Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle
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5 min readJun 28, 2021

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It was not difficult for me to create 10 photos of things that are edible (my goal for Day 4) to share on Snapshots. I only wish I could share with you some of the effusive over-production of our tropical fruit trees. What can one family do with 50 pounds of ripe bananas?

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A BIG bunch of bananas

Give them away, of course. You can bake a few loaves of banana bread, freeze some for smoothies, and — it is rumored— make banana wine. (I pass on that).

I remember as a kid in Pennsylvania, baskets of apples, pears, peaches and other fruit being traded with neighbors in the fall. Nature is too bountiful at times — and in the tropics that seems to be all the time.

Pana (freadfruit) and Mangoes

Take breadfruit: a few trees can produce enough fruit to feed a village, which often occurred after Captain Bligh of Mutiny on the Bounty fame reputedly spread seedlings around the tropical world. One potato-flavor fruit — often as big…

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