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By: Burning Silo » Blog Archive » Festival of the Trees - #3

Burning Silo » Blog Archive » Festival of the Trees - #3 — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:57:07 +0000

[…] Dave at Via Negativa gives us a lesson in Pear Economics. […]

By: suzanne

suzanne — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:51:41 +0000

wonderful photo
and
f a crisp
bosc pear
at that!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:14:53 +0000

Thanks, Brett. Shades of O’Keefe!

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:44:15 +0000

The Mexican photographer Flor GarduÃ±o has an exhibit here in the Phoenix area. I haven’t seen it yet, but there was a great image of a pear in the newspaper from the exhibit. You can see it at:
http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/florgarduno/fg_07.html

By: suzanne

suzanne — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:16:10 +0000

you said:

Pears are a bit like mangoes: soft and sweet and sticky.

I confess I prefer Bosc
crisp hard pears

(like the new (?)
new to me a couple of years ago at least
Honey Crisp apples

also extrmely CRISP eats

for soft sticky juicy:
mangoes are superior

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:10:51 +0000

You keep a list of roadkilled species? Sounds like a good (albeit depressing) blog post – or maybe newspaper column.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:23:07 +0000

I spoke to the borough police chief one day about free-roaming cats in the neighborhood. He said he would look the other way if I chose to take some kind of action. I never did. But it’s very disheartening.
Yesterday, I added a species to my list of roadkill victims: Tufted Titmouse. I was cycling out toward Columbia County at the time. The list grew to 59 species.

By: MB

MB — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:20:40 +0000

“I’d have to channel Neruda or something”

That made me laugh!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:12:08 +0000

You have paw-paws? Far out! I’ve never tasted one. Actually, red squirrels are a rarity here, too. Not enough conifers, I guess.

I guess you can’t very well shoot critters in the borough…

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:03:34 +0000

I never got around to planting a pear tree. We did try two dwarf apple trees, but the borough’s resident deer took care of both the growing apples and, later, the trees themselves. We planted them in large pots, which we set out on the driveway’s edge for maximum sun. This year, we planted sunflowers in one of the pots (after several earlier sunflower seedlings planted into terra firma out back fell to hungry cottontails. Now, a squirrel has cut down two of the stalks, leaving one remnant. Meanwhile, out back, a red squirrel has shown up and begun harvesting paw paw fruit from one of our two trees. The fruits are nowhere near full ripeness and, unfortunately, will not ripen once off their tree. I shall have to hope for the best as these custard-tasting fruits are delicious.