Avocados

Avocados
Originally uploaded by Peter B. Tzannes

Avocado season is almost here. The tree by our screen house is full of huge, nearly ripe avocados. Every time we get a good rain or some decent wind, we wake up to a new pile of freshly-fallen fruit. At first it was just one or two good-looking avocados and a bunch of rotten, cracked, mushed, or gnawed-at ones. Our first week we waited patiently for our two rock-hard avos to ripen but they never did completely. We got a couple of slivers onto our morning bagels with cream cheese but that was it. Now we have seven that are within a day or two of being perfect. Last night I found one that was ready to eat so we saved it for this morning. Our bagels were piled high with creamy green flesh.