Fig season is officially here.
When the Celestes start ripening, humidity is near 100% and gnats buzz around your head, like electrons around nuclei, you know that you are in the deepest part of summer in Tallahassee.
Tradition dictates commemorating the event with "una gran bella mangiata di fichi".

Here's how it's done: You approach the fig tree and give a sigh of appreciation to String Theory before reaching out and plucking the biggest ripest fig in sight. You attack the fig with all 5 senses before swallowing it.
Then you repeat the process until you can't do it any more. It may take 20 to 30 minutes until your stomach says, "No more".

Nope, I am not proud.

Poetry....true Poetry

Yeah. It's a curse! ;-)

Thanks for appreciating my heartfelt ode to summer and figs.

So, I felt so guilty over that vile act of gluttony that I went out early this morning and repeated it. 
Don't judge me. I am weak.

But... you will be relieved to know that I redeemed myself totally. I brought a few back to my wife.

HAHAHA, Frank your all Heart

I answered your message.

FMD, nice reading your thread and glad you are getting many figs to enjoy.
Keep the pictures coming .

Cecil, sometimes sacrifices just have to be made in life. :))

Thanks Martin. Here is an old picture of the tree from whence they came. It is anywhere from 15-20 feet tall and climbable. In fact, I did a taste test this morning by climbing all the way to the top to see if figs tasted differently there. 

Well did they taste any different? I'm surprised you could make it to the top after eating all them figs. Nice pictures and harvest. Nice..How you have 2 leaves and a pile of figs.


luke

I'd be proud.  Congratulations.  I think I'll leave the forum for a while so I don't have to look at figs I can't eat.  :)

Growing up that tree would have been fun playing hide and seek in !
Nice tree.

Yeah I've got blueberries and blackberries

BUT

I sure would like to have figs too!

In a few years I will.