Focusing on Fruit
Day 4 of my photo challenge
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?
All photos ©2021 R. C. Flores-Gunkle, All commercial rights reserved
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.
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…
