I hope the animal enjoyed it's late night snack, though I doubt it since it only destroyed it enough to make it non-consumable. Oh well, I have two more still ripening.
@darchibald lol :-) I had a feeling it would happen. I even asked my significant other to cut it off after the prior image, He said it needed a little more time... a little more time to be eaten by an animal. I do laugh at it. It's a fine addition to my tag,' final portrait'.
Beautiful capture. It reminded me of my father's garden. He had a pear tree that birds ate and a walnut tree that thieves worked off. He forgave the birds, but thieves... are everywhere.
@koalagardens I thought about it, but I think it was a racoon and many have rabies and there is a chance the saliva contaminated the fruit. I didn't want to risk it.
@rickster549 HOA only lets you put up one type of fence which has slots in it big enough for racoons to slip through. (really shouldn't have a garden, don't tell on me) . I'm considering chicken wire if my naked and afraid make shift bougainvillea fence fails.
@haskar when I was little a neighbor paid me to pick his pecans and help in his garden. One day I noticed he had a squirrel in a cage. I asked him about it and then watched has he took the cage and put it in a large trash can full of water. I was shocked. I started releasing them if I noticed one was caught . He fired me. I was 8. :-)
