On my way back from visiting the Metro Nashville Building Codes - a task that is not the most pleasant - its hard to hold your tongue after 3 decades of dealing with them.  Sigh!!  Then picked up my cleaning - another task not my favorite - heat ain't the word - how about H E Double hockey sticks!  Anyways, now with my ego and "usually Sunny disposition" located in or about my little toe on my left foot, I decided to waste a little time and check up on my fig trail.  First stop - JOY, RAPTURE, EUPHORIA, EXHILARATION, JUBILATION-   I saw birds!  Now, I am an old smelly fisherman - and I know when I see birds, there is usually something good below them.  Well you can also find bird poop under birds also - but I wouldn't be joyous about finding bird poop.  Walked up and found ripe figs!  Did I eat any?  Lets just say, I better not check my blood sugar level!  Tasty, but some needed another day or two.  But I was a kid in the candy store - you couldn't stop me!  Not as good as the GBOD tree but good, especially when compared to the store-bought things I've had lately.

What do ya think?  Celeste? 


I didn't have a quarter!


PS - sorry about the iPhone pics - Lately I never seem to have my good cameras with me when I need them.

So nice Caney!  There HAS TO BE A FIG TRAIL in Louisville, right??   I mean, you have one in Nashville.    By the time I am done, there is going to be a fig trail!!

Caneyscud,
to me those are nice pictures what ever you used to take them.
The violet bloom shows well on them figs and they are very nice looking.
Thanks for the view.  ; )

Sara
If you build it they will come!  LOL

One must ponder the question though - with the Hot Browns, Mint Juleps, and Louie's Derby Cakes does one need a fig trail?  The answer is obvioius - of course! 

I'm now up to 11 trees that I have seen.  None in the more immigrant intensive parts of town, but we don't have along history of ethnic neighborhoods like other cities.  Most of the trees have the same leaf shape. 

A new epiphany - I know an older Italian gentleman at church that I need to ask if he knows of any figs around here that are from the old country.  I also know a lady from church that immigrated from Bulgaria a few years ago.  Her dad still lives there - I'll have to ask here also.

Celeste. 

Thanks Jason.

I've never seen a Celeste with a breba crop.  It's definitely not a BT.  This is a common ignorant viewpoint from non-fig people.