I lied

Well, perhaps not really lied. Maybe exaggerated, or used a bit of poetic license. Whatever, over on Fern's blog I implied that it has done little but rain recently. It does rather seem that way, but in fact yesterday was a very pleasant day, warm with a reasonable amount of sun. I took the opportunity to climb into the pear tree and pick the rest of the fruit before it crashes to the ground and gets eaten by Fern. I say tree (singular) because although we have two pear trees, the second bears very little fruit which ripens several weeks earlier and which has already been picked. The crop I picked yesterday is one of the best for some years, both in quantity and, particularly, in quality.