Fig

We can thank the scorching summer and climate change for a couple of ripe figs. I found them yesterday, a first. No one believes it when they see that big tree covered with green figs, but they never fully ripen. Not in 40 years. Only the starlings eat them, and in fact a noisy flock was fighting over the best ones yesterday. 

There is nothing so tasty as a good fig. Or so bad as a bad one. Anyway, that's it for another year. The weather has turned cold and dark just in time for October. In a few weeks this mass of vegetation and green figs will fall to the ground in a big soggy mess.