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.   

   

The morning dew shows a spider's work

Spider webs like this are numerous in the morning. 

Our walk on this Monday morning took us up to the east end of the paved road to look at our passion fruit crop.  On the way I saw a spider web in a field which was hanging heavy with dew.  The dew soaks everything at that early hour of the morning.   I managed to get  a good photo of the web and got all wet in the process.  We continued on from there up to the culvert where the passion fruit has been growing all summer.   It is very important to check it every day as it will become ripe quickly.  When it is ripe any animal that can reach it will take it away.  I managed to get a good look at quite a few of the fruits this morning although they are scattered in a field of unidentified vines that may be itchy.   I will only go out in that area when I am covered completely to prevent an itchy reaction.

Three Passion fruits almost ready.  

 I got a good photo of the fruit while the dog sniffed in the high grass for some type of musky smelling animal that even I could smell.  We headed on toward the house as we went I noticed the pecan tree leaves are starting to fall.  They will usually fall once in the late summer due to a fungus that affects the leaves.  The trees will grow a new flush of leaves which will fall again when the frosts and freezes start later this year.   I hope you have a great day today.  Thanks for reading my blog.  Bye.