5 minute freewrite 2613 prompt a purple spotted apple

This is my post for #freewriters 2613 prompt a purple spotted apple hosted by @mariannewest

As I was looking through my pictures to find a picture of an apple, a purple spotted apple would have been perfect, but I do not have one or have I ever seen one. I did notice how many fruit trees we have grown or still grow. That got me thinking about WHY, why do we grow so many things. Is it because we are cheap, or because it replaces the kids and we have something to care for? Or are some people born to grow plants, like people are born with gifts to be doctors or musicians, yes they went to school for it but there had to be something "there" that led them in that direction. Is that "gift" the reason we grow so many different things? I would say it is the mother in me but my husband is much better at it than I am.

We have a star fruit tree, and yesterday, I noticed it had fruit. My heart hurt when I saw the fruit hanging there and thought of us getting a freeze. I settled down when I remembered they fruit in the winter, too.

When I first notice a new pineapple flower, it warms my heart, as if I was finding out I am having a new grandchild.

For months I watched them grow, wasn't it just yesterday when I first noticed it?

Now some are grown and will be out of their nest. I won't say what happens next, but you know.

I do not get many strawberries because the wild rabbits beat me to them, but when I do get on, I take a little bite and Rudy gets the rest. This makes me happy.

We used to have two peach trees. The first year it gave us the best tasting and juiciest peaches. Biting into one made you think you were in Heaven.

But the second and third year, the bugs found them and my husband said he was not growing food for the bugs to eat and he chopped them down. This crushed me, he might as well have been sawing my limbs off.

Surinam cherry, one bite and I am back to my childhood at Aunt Mae's picking them from her hedge. I only ate the ones that when you touched them, fell off in your hand. If you had to pull it off, it is not ripe enough.

The figs were a good plant to sell so I grew them, I never felt an emotional attachment and did not care to eat them so I never put one in the yard. I had no feelings about it when we sold the last one. I found that there are plants I do not care to have.

Bananas make me feel overwhelmed but can make me feel warm and secure. I say this because too many get ripe at one time and we have an overabundance of them. When I freeze them they get mushy so I do not care to eat them unless in banana bread and the smell of it baking and when you smear butter on a hot slice, what can I say but mmmm mmmm good, my belly is happy and in love.

This is the closest thing I grow to a purple spotted apple. I do not know what kind of dragon fruit it is but it brings pure joy to me, not like the other one I grow, it is white with black seeds, and when I cut one of them open, my heart sinks. They are all purple on the outside but mixed. I can not grow only one kind because they cross pollinate to get fruit.

photos are mine