Monday, February 13, 2012

Hanging out with fruit and figs on Sunday!

Hi all again! Was a nippy and cold Sunday in Gainesville but it was sunny! Not to disappoint my legions of fans your favorite traveling Buttfreckle had another adventure! Not as exciting as Saturday's Cox trip, but I met some of the fruit bearing trees and bushes in Beth's yard!



Beth's dormant blueberry bush. There are two of them. She says they come in pairs so they can pollinate each other. She has some blueberries in her freezer from this one. Maybe she'll make me some blueberry pancakes before I head onto Auntie Brenda's!


This is her fig tree. Like the blueberry bush, this too is dormant. She said she had a bumper crop of figs - some too are frozen. She said her mom made an awesome fig cake and also will use in her (mom) fruit cake. Not sure my take on fruit cake, but fig cake -yum!

Me in Beth's muscadine grape arbor. Looks like this needs pruning. Beth said the squirrels and birds had their way with the muscadines this year.
Her kumquat bush! Now these have fruit! Beth has made kumquat marmalade in the past. I may have to try some. Then again we don't want a sticky faced Buttfreckle!


Finally me and grapefruit! Yes, these ARE much bigger than me! Since her tree had no low hanging fruit we all, including Beth, climbed up the tree! No Buttfreckles nor humans were harmed in these photos. However quite a few of these grapefruits were harvested!

This was a fun time but I was glad to get inside. Very cold for sure. Now my Monday - Beth says I will enjoy it lots! See you all soon!

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