This is what is on the trees in my place (Daphne) Sour cherries, apples and figs. Such wonderful fruits. The sour cherries will be made into “a spoonful of sweetness” with syrup, delicious with yoghurt !!! The apples are too hard for my taste but i will try them for sure just to make my husband happy !! And for the figs we need to wait a little bit more, they are not ready yet. In August we will have the dark figs, also delicious. Anybody else any other fruit in their garden ?
Archive for June 6th, 2012
Summer fruit in our own garden
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Bah!
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The goddess Athena got up early today and parked this bank of thick rain-bearing cumulus over Alonnisos during the final stages of the Transit of Venus, the last until December 2117 and only the sixth since the invention of the telescope. It would, in truth, have been a fairly minimal affair; just a small dot passing across the yellow disk of the star, but in the 18th century Captain James Cook spent three years sailing to and from Tahiti to observe that year’s Transit there and help begin measuring the size of the solar system. The Guardian has an interesting rolling blog about this year’s Transit here, including the story of 18th century astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil, who spent eleven years in India hunting Transits and managed to miss two due to poor weather conditions. The cumulus bank actually cleared towards seven o’clock, but by then all that was visible were what looked like sunspots. Still, even though the stage curtain stayed down, an enigmatic glimpse of the clock works of the universe ticking away.
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