Plums

 This is the best harvest we've had since we moved here..this is about 9lbs..and there's still some more. The tree was pretty badly overgrown, scraggly w/ lots of deadwood. Chris has been patiently pruning away on it each year. One year we had caterpillAR nests, last year, not too many, & still some w bugs..
This year's decent, and the plums are pretty clean! Here's to patience!

 The gizmo below is my homemade plum, walnut, pear picking device, a plastic bottle w/ a hole cut out, I put it over the item of desire, then it falls off into the bottle, and into my basket it goes..
Okay, but it's pretty slow going, since I don't see so good when looking into the sunny sky.. it took me about five minutes to get 7 plums, then Chris couldn't stand the show anymore (me, in the backyard, squinting mightily, and waving a weird stick around in the sky, missing the tree) & came out w a tall ladder, and got the rest, much more efficiently, I might add, so I can only lay claim to seven of the plums, but A for effort! Or goofiness maybe.