Peaches, Nectarines, Pears and Apples!

 

My son Aaron lives in orchard country and he grows tomatoes and sunflowers, so it's always fun to head out there. Julie's Dad has apple orchards close by. Apparently he used to have peach, nectarine and pears as well but now there are only a few of those trees left. He loves to share...

Last night R joined me because she's nice and because she was craving a BLT.  She went to the local farmer's market yesterday but the line was over a block long. They only can allow a certain number of people in because the corona! She opted not to do that. 

When we got there J had a few bags of premium honey crisp apples waiting for us along with the remnants of the peaches.  At this point, if they are not picked the birds enjoy the peaches so most most of the fruit is mushy. The nectarines suffer the same fate but they were not quite as ripe so we got more of those.  The pears are still very hard and very green but I'm hoping they will ripen on the counter.

We raided the tomato garden and came out with way too many. They all seem to have ripened at the same time and Aaron doesn't have a market for them. He doesn't care either because he was gifted a few flats and decided to put them in his back field. He has a beautiful stand to sunflowers back there too. We got a few of those too!

We will be having BLT sandwiches for lunch!! Yum!

He had some drooping glads in his yard that needed rescuing!