Pear tree in blossom,
an annual attraction.
— so decorative —
Autumn brings abundant fruit
ignored by lazy townsfolk.
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Sarah Potter Writes 
You mean, there are actual pears on the tree and nobody but the birds pick and eat them?
Nuts!!
I have 7 different fruit trees in my garden – if I manage to eat even one fruit off any of them before the birds get there, I’m extremely lucky!!
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Wow, lucky you, having 7 different fruit trees! What fruits are they? I know birds love cherries in particular and people have to put nets over the trees before they fruit. Then there are plums and damsons, well loved by wasps. I once read a horror novel in which someone bit into a plum, not noticing a wasp inside it, and died. I’ve always been very cautious since then, about eating fruit straight off the tree. I used to have to watch my dog when she was a puppy, re lurking wasps, because she loved eating apples fallen off the tree in our garden.
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I am lucky to have the trees – not so much with eating the fruits 😉
Have a plum, apricot, 2 different kinds of peach, guava, 2 different kind of fig and a tangerine. They don’t eat the tangerine at all, but then again, neither do I – tastes more like a lemon than a tangerine 😉
As for wasps and things, we have them here too, and I doubt that the actual wasp will be in the fruit – more likely its eggs. Have never had the bad luck to have that happen to me thank heavens!!
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I do get this! If I can’t use all the fruit on my apple trees, I invite a certain cousin to come in and harvest so that I don’t feel too guilty or wasteful.
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This particular pear tree overhangs a public walkway between garages at the back of some houses. Legally, I am not entitled to pick the fruit within my reach, because the tree stands on private property. Pears are one of my favourite fruits, so I find it very frustrating.
Good on you, Naomi, inviting your cousins over 🙂
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