Fruit salad in my future

Green for only a little while longer.

Monday evening the dog and I started our walk just after the sun had set.  As we were walking through the back yard I stopped and looked at the oranges.  These are the Louisiana sweet oranges which some people call Hamlin oranges.  They are slightly smaller than a baseball now and are pretty hard.  The inside has already taken on the familiar orange look but the taste now is that of a lemon.  As the weather gets cooler they will ripen pretty quickly and just after Thanksgiving I usually start eating them.  They will remain on the tree from Thanksgiving to march if I allow them to and they will still be good to eat.  Earlier this year I still had last years crop hanging on the trees when they began to bloom.  In another part of the yard I noted that a second banana tree has opened a flower and a small bunch of bananas is beginning to form.

The real second banana.  

The Yellow Jackets may be going. 

  

The dog and I  then walked on down to the area of the Yellow Jacket hive  where we arrived there in the dark.  I saw that the Yellow Jackets were not flying and they all seemed to be hanging on the front of the hive.  As always I will use care when approaching them as they can be viscous when aggravated.  I managed to zoom in my IPhone and get a photograph showing their front entrance.  They are just milling around and not doing very much.  The dog and I made our way back home and I drove over to the house of the owner of the land where the Yellow Jackets are.  I described the location of the hive and reiterated the size of it.  I wanted to make sure the owner of the property knows about this nest as he and his crew are running fences nearby.  The last thing I want is for someone to get hurt by these things when it can be avoided.  Thanks for coming by tonight.  Bye.