It's Plum Season

The branches of our Italian prune plum tree have been weighted down this summer from a record number of plums.  The tree is loaded, despite having dropped an equal amount of smaller, weaker fruit the past month or so.  Survival of the fitness, even with fruit trees.  We have to assume the wet spring and the dry hot heat of summer set the right conditions for such a bumper crop. We certainly never water this tree.   Chris is already picking and eating them but they are still crunchy which I don't like.   I'll wait a week or two until they are deliciously ripe.