Look at your trees! Pear delight!

We love to go on afternoon walks around our neighborhood and recently noticed two trees at one neighbor's yard. Approaching the trees to get a closer look at the drooping branches, we notice mini bosc pears growing, two to three bunches per branch. Feeling them, the fruit's skin was still hard, so we waited, watching them daily, eagerly planning ways to use them when the fruit ripened. We'd mull over ways to use them- roasting pears wrapped in foil in the oven with blue cheese chunks and balsamic vinger to caramelizing wedges in the saute pan with sliced onions to pureeing them as a pearsauce cousin to apple sauce. Today we saw two squirrels nibbling on the pears, so we knew the fruit must be ready. Sure enough, the fruit felt ripe. Glancing at our neighbor's house for any sign of movement and seeing none, we grabbed several and stuffed them in our pockets and walked onward, grinning up to our ears. We gave them a scrub at home and bit into delicious fruit, truly picked right off the tree. What a purely delightful feeling to be full of pears! We can't wait until tomorrow's walk!