Friendly Friday fruits – guest hosting

• Manja Maksimovič

Welcome, Friendly Friday friends! Let me gather your links this week as the executioner of Amanda who is mightily occupied with her moving house.

She writes: 

The theme I picked this week was "fruits". 
This could mean fruits as in apples, pears, oranges or it could mean 
the "fruits" of ones work, hobby or life. 
You can interpret this how you wish.

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Before we have a look at my selection of physical fruits – as Amanda says, yours can be metaphysical – a note on hosting.

In two weeks I will guest host Friendly Friday photo challenge once more, and next week it’s Snow Melts Somewhere‘s turn again. She is slowly getting ready to discontinue her hosting but Amanda will not be alone. While I will help out when necessary like today, another blogger has agreed to co-host our beloved challenge with Amanda in the next year, and here is the reveal:

She is Sandy from thesandychronicles.blog! She loves to read, writes entertaining and soulful posts and takes wonderful photos (here is her last post with beautiful leaves), so the challenge will continue in very able hands. Thanks, Sandy!

And now have a look at my selection of fruits of nature’s labour, and then post your own for all of us to have a taste. It may be only one of them or countless. Everybody is welcome to take part. Have a friendly Friday and the rest of the weekend!

(When you are done reading all the captions, click on the last photo and view them in the gallery again for some extra colour extravaganza.)

  • Where we stopped yesterday. Oranges + bananas. Ostiense, Rome. By BLU.
  • Butterfly’s love for oranges. Arboretum Volčji Potok, Slovenia.
  • Imagine the love of this tree for its only fruit. But oranges are not the only fruit, as Jeanette Winterson knows.
  • This is Maclura pomifera, commonly known as Osage orange. (Ah, orange again!) Native Americans know it well. Wiki doesn’t know that, but it grows also in the WWF Oasis Lago di Burano.
  • This is not an orange. Pomegranate on the tree…
  • …on the table and on the book cover (excellent but sad Croatian “Love Story”.)
  • …and on the plate in pieces.
  • Not fruit as we would call it but try to explain this to the tree.
  • Definitely fruit. Apricots. Yum.
  • No, this olive didn’t bear this huge grape. A local winery attracts visitors this way.
  • These are real though. Father’s grapes in Piran.
  • This is from there too. A beast in the Garden of Eden (in druga = Slovenian joke).
  • One more from this garden: Kiwi fruit and mother’s stone art.
  • Here she is, the cherry on top at Goriška Brda, called “Slovenian Tuscany”.
  • These cherries are from her brother’s garden in Ljubljana.
  • This is what Slovenians do with peaches. They get them drunk. With wine in the glass. They are in the cake too. Nova vas.
  • An assortment of typical Slovenian fruits: Blackberries in Piran.
  • Apples above Ljubljana.
  • Hazelnuts are fruit too, right? I remember my dilemma when they told us decades ago as our plane was landing in LAX that we were not to bring any fruit into the country, and I didn’t know whether peanuts were fruit or not. So I left them on the plane to be sure.
  • Redcurrant or some poisonous relative?
  • Back to Rome. Ooops. Tomatoes classify as fruit, right?
  • What about these? Artichokes are a Roman favourite. But they are flowers, I suppose.
  • This is how our local supermarket invites you to buy local strawberries. This region is renowned for them.
  • The view from Capalbio with an assortment of citrus fruits.
  • Where is the fruit, you ask? Just to show you how I choose destinations. We drove for hours to visit this town, Pomarance in Tuscany, just because I like the sound of its name. It means “oranges” in Slovenian.

And now it’s your turn!

How to join the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge

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67 thoughts on “Friendly Friday fruits – guest hosting”

    1. Thanks, Bojana. 🙂 As for this Osage orange, I have no idea and have never heard this name before. I only know it because I took a photo of the board next to the tree in the nature reserve telling about the native Americans appreciating it. A random internet article tells that it is “inedible to humans, but squirrels seem to love it. The fruit has caused the death of quite a few cows and other livestock that try to swallow one whole.” So, cows, beware!

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    1. Thank you, SMSW. 🙂 I’d really love that. They call these peaches “drunken peaches” and hold them in giant plastic vats at parties. (How do I know? Hm…) I hope you can have some cake at least. (Still no responders! 😮 Strange.)

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  9. Thanks for the intro Manja! While I’m waiting in the wings & still learning from example, I’m looking forward to hosting after the year end break.
    What a delectable selection of fruits you’ve shown us. There’s nothing more tempting than fruit hanging from a tree. Yum.

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  37. There are pomegranates again! Tara has learned this trick to open them up and expose all the jeweled seeds in 5 minutes. I keep meaning to ask them to teach me. And kiwi too! What a land of treasures, growing from trees. Here we can manage hazelnuts…and I love them… but most of these fruits you’ve shown must be imported.

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  38. An absolutely mouthwatering array of photos, Manja, my goodness! The humble apple was completely overshadowed by them all. The pomegranate seeds looked like jewels. I love the photo of the dog peering through the leaves as if at the lone orange. I think that was my favourite along with the butterfly shot! Gorgeous 👌💛

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    1. Hihih, apples are the most common fruit in Slovenia. I suppose we all look down on them a little for this reason. I’m glad you like bestia and the butterfly. The latter made it into my post with my favourite photos of all time that I posted just recently. Thank you, Sunra Nina!

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