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We really need to coordinate our trips more carefully in advance. Always so near, and yet so far.
1 month agoHey, thanks for the preview! We’ll be biking from Mayenne to Laval with Susan in a few weeks.
1 month agoThey really are. There are several different kinds of cows here. Mostly at home we see Holsteins or occasionally Herefords, for meat.
1 month agoVery likely. Dodie used to make Quince Jelly, which was a very pretty hot pink colour.
1 month agoNot sweet, acerbic, made tongue numb.
1 month agoSuch sweet faces!
1 month agoFrom your description of the thorns I would guess that this is a quince. Bitter until dead ripe, and the seeds are known to be very toxic. Locally it’s usually made into jam or pate de coing. We had one for it’s pretty red flowers, but the thorns eventually got to me and I dug it out.
1 month agoHi,
Or soy sauce. Those are unripe soy beans. They will darken as they ripen. They are harvested late, after the plant has turned brown and dry. Living in southern Minnesota for thirty years gave me a familiarity with them I can’t seem to shake!
Cheers,
Keith
Hard and bitter, not apple-y at all! It's the countryside that is teasing us, with it's cuckoo fruit. We did get one good pear!
1 month agoDid you actually taste it? There’s a lot of fruit teasing going on in this days posting eh!
1 month agoWhat made them inedible?
1 month agoYou’re definitely one of the three wise men, Steve! 😊
1 month agoPrevious season being some 2000 years ago in Bethlehem.
1 month agoProtein is a cyclists friend.
1 month ago
“Black headed” gull? Is the dark spot the “identifier”? Or, perhaps this gull is of advanced age thereby lightening(or in this case whitening) the dark-headed identification . 😬
1 month ago