LOVE OF A FIG

Heat is an amazing.  It certainly does all manner of evil things to the trees and the plants, causing thirsty drooping leaves, but it also has turned on the Fig ripening mechanism.  The trees have been covered with the little fig bulbs, but with the onset of the heat wave, I can barely keep up with the harvest.  Fresh tree ripened figs beat anything you find in the stores.  Soft, sweet, lovely little balls of gooey deliciousness.