Posted on 05/28/2021 7:58:19 AM PDT by mylife
los Angeles does, contrary to what some believe, have seasons; they just aren’t the same as those in the Northeast or Midwest. There isn’t really a fall or a winter. Instead, there’s Fire Season, Rainy Three Weeks, and June Gloom, among others. But there’s another way to measure the passage of time: by fruit. We’re not talking about what’s in the farmer’s markets, but what’s growing on the streets, in parking lots, in plots of land that may or may not belong to anyone.
Los Angeles, especially the hotter, drier East Side, is not home to an unusually large number of native edible plants, but it is home to an absolutely berserk amount of non-native fruit trees, planted both intentionally and accidentally. Many of these simply line neighborhood streets. Among them, especially prominent on the East Side, in now-trendy neighborhoods like Silver Lake, Echo Park, and Atwater Village, is the loquat.
The loquat—an extremely juicy, incredibly prolific, mighty delicious sweet-sour fruit, bright yellow in color, somewhere between a plum and a mango in flavor—is so common that you can hardly walk more than three or four houses in these neighborhoods without passing one. And yet it isn’t celebrated, prized, or, for the most part, eaten at all. You can tell this because if they were valued, then all those trees wouldn’t be absolutely heavy with fruit. “Nobody eats them,” says Alissa Walker, a Los Angeles–based journalist and loquat enthusiast, of the loquat trees in her neighborhood. “They just hang on the trees, and I’m like, ‘Is anyone going to eat these?’”
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I have no idea either and have never seen them in stores.......I can't understand why since they were so delicious. Maybe because they are too fragile to ship.......Oh well, would sure like to get some more of them.
Two of the most humorous things I’ve seen from birds:
A Cardinal sitting atop the out side mirror on my car, looking down at himself, then attacking himself repeatedly for about ten minutes before he got tired and flew away.
A bluebird chasing and dive bombing a squirrel across my yard and on into the park across the street.
Interesting. Which nations?
sorry- was gone today- The ones around us I believe are from Saudi Arabia- At least that is what i was told- The owners of the Gas stations they go back every few years- and their family come from over there and stays here for the summer months- but leaves in fall - I’m sure there are more from other nations as well- Not sure where the ones who were busted for massive welfare fraud were from- that was a few towns over- They ran a Taxi Service and somehow were scamming Medicaid- i think by claiming to have driven folks to doctors, hospitals etc when they actually didn’t- they had a whole fleet of vehicles and drivers involved- it was a huge operation
[[A bluebird chasing and dive bombing a squirrel across my yard and on into the park across the street.]]
I just witnessed that same thing two days ago- the squirrel kept trying to climb to the birdhouse, and the bluebirds kept dive bombing it- the bird wouldn’t even be close, and the squirrel would get scared and fall off the pole- Eventually it gave up trying and ran off- Not sure if squirrels would eat bird eggs or young or not?
[[those damned sour little green footballs that covered the shelves for decades had disappeared.]]
LOL- Yep- nothing worse than getting a bag of grapes home and biting into them and nearly passing out doing the sour mash tango-
[[Hi, what kind of beer do you have?”
“Well, a lot of people like My Left Nut. Its is a choco-mocha chestnut rosemary infused IPA.”
“Ah, no. Anything else?”
“Well, we have an Irish red doghair and sardine...”
“No. Beer. I want a beer. Do you have anything like a helles? A kolsche? An alt or maybe a bock? No? How about just a some kind of pilsner?”
“Ummm...we have Bud lite.”
“Stop it. No...Ill...just... go elsewhere.” (Yes, the Shatner pauses are important.)]]
LOL Sounds just like Shatner-
[[We cant blame it all on the distributors though can we?]]
I think it’s a conspiracy to create a ‘Cult Following of a really bad beer’- they crush any competing good tasting beers that should crop up from time to time-
We have a number of small town breweries- I don’t drink so no idea how they are- but at least there is variety and plenty of competition to choose from for those that do-
Cool thread!
Some resources:
https://endlessorchard.com/map/
Falling Fruit has mapped some of my neighborhood trees but not the avocados, I think those are being kept secret. :)
You have avocados? I’m jealous! We love them.
Are you happy to see me, or is that a paw-paw in your pocket?................................
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