Pear Season is Here

These are Bartlett Pears.

Mr. Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester Massachusetts named the pears after himself but there are over 150 synonyms around the world for this type of pear. Originally called “The Williams’ bon chrétien pear, commonly called the Williams pear, or the Bartlett pear in the United States and Canada, is the most commonly grown variety of pear in most countries outside Asia” click for history

Tips for buying and ripening Bartlett pears in this CBS news video you don’t want them to get mushy.

Pears. Do you like them cooked or raw?

Winter Frost Pineberries

All I can say is I would not buy them again. Oh, that’s right, I didn’t buy them in the first place. Laura did. They were pretty and tasted fresh but I couldn’t describe the flavor. Not strawberry.

“Pineberry is a hybrid cross from Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana.[1] A pineberry is smaller than a common strawberry, measuring between 15 to 23 mm (0.6 to 0.9 in). When ripe, it is almost completely white, but with red achenes (the seeds). The plant is disease-resistant, and highly priced, although not profitable due to small-scale farming, small berry size and low yield.[2]” Wikipedia

Idiom

Idiom a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs) “there are more than 25 million idiomatic expressions in English language” Wikipedia

Go Bananas and click here for more fruit idioms.

“Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries” is a song with music by Ray Henderson lyrics by Les Brown, published in 1931.[1]Ethel Merman introduced this song in George White’s Scandals of 1931. Wikipedia

Judy Garland sings it here

“Erma Fiste (known as Erma Bombeck) was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, to a working-class family, and was raised in Dayton. She became very famous when she wrote, ‘If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?’ The hilarious #1 New York Times bestseller was Erma Bombeck’s take on marriage and family life is “fun from cover to cover”.”