On (23 Apr 97) Marilyn Boissoneault wrote to Jim Venedam...
 MB> Birds can be pretty clever when they spot food they're
     interested in.  Hope they leave you a few figs to enjoy.
     I've never eaten a ripe fig.  I've only had the preserved
     ones you see in the stores, sorta like dates. 
     I understand I'm missing a treat.
I'll have to invite you and Kat over when the fruit ripens. The 
figs are probably a different variety. they aren't what I was 
expecting. They have a kind of purple color and are a tad 
squishy. The flesh is kind of like a dry plum. Very sweet.
The leaves all wither and drop off after the fruit is gone.
The first year, I thought it was a fungus, so sprayed it with 
copper, but it does it every year and stays bare thru the 
"winter". It's plenty healthy now.
Jimvee 
 
... I saw Elvis, and all I got was this lousy jelly doughnut.
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