Harvesting prickly pears, Vita, Belice Valley, Sicily, June 2025
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 14 June 2025
Posted as part of Six Word Saturday
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they make a delicious jam
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Oh my! That scale! When my eye finally travelled to the man trimming the hedge …
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It was the scale that I loved – a small person surrounded by nature
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Exactly! I love these mind-altering compositions where one gets a fun Aha! when unpacking the image!
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Wow! You must have been on an even taller ladder to capture that great perspective. 😂.
I’ve got one for this week. https://heavenssunshine.com/the-road-to-adventures-in-maui/
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Ah, well spotted. Actually I was just on a road above – I’m not a keen ladder climber 😉
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tried to harvest a few once – it wasn’t a success 😉
https://lessywannagohome.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-only-pricks-worth-dealing-with.html
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Oh dear. I hope you didn’t get stabbed too many times!
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I’ve been offline for only a couple of days (but I wasn’t sure how long it would be) but I was rescued! Everything seems to be working (except for the pingbacks but I’m not complaining)!
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Don’t know anything about them! Looks like hard work.
Here’s mine: These Are Just So Peachy Keen | Out of My Write Mind
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A fascinating photo. I’ve seen them for sale in the grocery store, but never tried them.
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-view-through-back-gate.html
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Those are some enormous prickly pears! You can eat or use the fruit, but you have to remove a zillion spines, so I never tried. As a hedge, they would be a very effective deterrent to trespassers.
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I wouldn’t want to tackle that either. But it is very popular – especially the later harvest at the end of the year, when the fruits are much larger
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Prickly pear juice makes good lemonade and sake, albeit a bit (to a lot) pink. The “meat” is good to eat, provided all the spines have been removed! 😉
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That’s a fine hedge to deter people. I guess he had a plan for his crop.
I couldn’t find my prickly pear photo so this will have to do
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Probably fruit at breakfast or maybe jam or another delicacy. He was certainly energetic in his battering of the cacti to make the ripe fruits fall.
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ooops : https://suejudd.com/2025/06/14/lets-revisit-a-roofscape-in-ragusa/
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Probablky precarious, indeed! Here’s an older one of mine from Sicily too:
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Good one, not would not like to fall from that ladder
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Certainly not into the prickly pears!
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Perfectly precarious!
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🙂 🙂
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I assumne you are back from your travels. My 6WS is of travel and a disaster :–https://davidoakes-images.com/2025/06/14/6ws-6-word-saturday-challenge-52/
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Looks a bit unsafe with the ladder leaning like that.
Mine for this Saturday: https://mariawijk.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/smile-you-are-on-candid-camera/
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Wouldn’t be my choice of activity! But I think it was well held in place by the thorns
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