Longest day, shortest day

[heliopausa]

For me, in summer, it's the longest day, and shaping to be another long, hot one; I love summer, or the thought of summer, but one can have too much of a good thing. 
Still, one good thing summer has been bringing has been the mangoes from next-door-but-one's tree, thudding down into the front yard here - it's a big tree, and the houses are built very close together, so they fall into several yards, as well as into the lane..
I have been thriftily picking them up, the ones in the yard, not in the lane, and eating them, unless the ants have got to them first - or else when there's too many accumulated, I've been slicing them up and freezing the pulp.  The ants get to quite a few, though, because a ripe mango falling on a brick-paved courtyard - well, you follow.  But this morning, hooray!  There were two, and with skin unbroken.  :)

Comments

[sovay]

But this morning, hooray! There were two, and with skin unbroken.

I am glad your summer is coming in with mangoes.

[heliopausa]

Thank you! The way fruit just grows on trees absolutely amazes and delights me.
The heat, especially humid heat... I don't handle it well, but the idea of summer, and summer abundance, overwhelms me at times with how beautiful it is.

[sovay]

The heat, especially humid heat... I don't handle it well, but the idea of summer, and summer abundance, overwhelms me at times with how beautiful it is.

I shut down in heat and sympathize, but share the admiration for how summer works.

[heliopausa]

:) We aestivate!

[asakiyume]

How marvelous--a wonderful thing, fruit falling into your garden.

(I like how mangos look like ornaments, hung from strings, as they ripen.)

[heliopausa]

What wondrous life is this I lead
Ripe apples drop about my head...

That's Marvell, not me, of course! :)

And yes, about how they hang; this amazingly beautiful world!.

[flemmings]

Mangoes, ripe mangoes, that fall off trees! Can such beauty be?!

[heliopausa]

It's an astonishing world, isn't it? I love it!

[autumnia]

With all those free mangoes, I'd go crazy with dessert recipes. :-)

[heliopausa]

The drawback - it's too hot to want to do anything at all. The farthest I've got is mango and icecream, and mango lassi - which was pretty great, I admit. :)

[marmota_b]

Mango lassi is one of my favourite things!

[marmota_b]

My summer comes without mangoes, which is a slight disappointment. It does usually come with cherries and strawerries and that kind of thing, though, so it's not too big a disappointment. :-)

[heliopausa]

I think if you have cherries (which also look magical to me, hanging on the trees - so beautiful!) then you pretty well have perfection! :)

[marmota_b]

Apparently, now we have lots and lots and LOTS of cherry jam.