Fruit from the Trees

While my neighborhood has a pretty urban feel, I keep finding opportunities to pick fruit off of trees. Last week I found a small fig tree on my walk back to my office. Clearly, other people have noticed it, because at a casual glance I only found one fig that was ripe enough to pick. I sliced it and put it into my salad... Pretty good, actually.



Every day, I walk past two pomegranate trees in the courtyard of my apartment. They've had fruit on them for... months, I think. My landlord told me that I would have to wait for November for them to be ripe... The fruits on one of the trees have turned pink, and I am tempted to pick one just to see, but I am going to be patient for another month.



Of course, there was the loquat tree earlier this summer. There was always plenty of ripe fruit on there!