#oranges — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/960997/ 5 water-rich seasonal fruits to add to your diet to beat the summer heat #Health #IceApple #lychee #mango #Nutrition #oranges #pineapple #SummerFruit #UK #UnitedKingdom
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#APPLES #AND #ORANGES www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q... github.com/globalaudien... aePiot: Sparking the Web 4.0 fire. Build nodes and rule SEO.
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#APPLES #AND #ORANGES www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q... github.com/globalaudien... aePiot: Sparking the Web 4.0 fire. Build nodes and rule SEO.
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“Did you have any orange juice today?”*…
… if so, it’s less and less likely that it was from Florida.
The canonical articles on the Florida orange juice industry are John McPhee’s two-parter from The New Yorker from the 1960s. But that was then.
Alex Sammon has picked up the baton, with an article on the brutal, unrelenting decline of that business…
Quiet fell over the room, which was neither full nor very loud to begin with, and the 2026 Florida Citrus Show began.
“It should be a great day,” began the event’s first speaker. “Rain should hold off today, even though we definitely need more rain.” No one laughed.
There was no need to say that things were bad. Everyone knew it. The mood wasn’t sour—citrus farmers could handle sour. It was something else. Postapocalyptic. Florida is in the midst of its worst drought in 25 years, but the dry spell actually ranked far down on the list of challenges these bedraggled growers were facing.
In 2003, the mighty Florida orange industry produced 242 million boxes of fruit, with 90 pounds of oranges per box, most of which went on to become orange juice. Now, not even 25 years later, the United States Department of Agriculture was forecasting a pitiful 12 million boxes of oranges, the least in more than 100 years, the worst year since last. A decline of more than 95 percent.
And everyone knew, more or less, that even that figure was not happening. “Twelve million? I would doubt it,” Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, the state’s largest trade group, told me. There was chatter that even 11 million might be out of reach. Could the total end up being less than that, just seven figures? In Florida, the citrus capital of the world, you are today more likely to see the oranges printed on the state’s 18 million license plates than a box of actual fruit.
Rick Dantzler, chief operating officer of the Citrus Research and Development Foundation, took the podium. He was blunt. “It’s been a dumpster fire of a year,” he said.
On the list of immediate problems: the implementation of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, then the government shutdown, then a stunning, historic freeze, days long, at the end of January and early February, that besieged the fragile orange trees.
And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem. Already, Florida had lost about three-quarters of its citrus growers. The last of them, these spent survivors, these hangers-on, had trudged to the Citrus Show to talk about the real problem, which was the disease.
In 2005, Florida first got signs of a new affliction in its groves called citrus greening disease. It also has a Chinese name, Huanglongbing, or HLB, because it came from China, where oranges also came from in the first place.
Citrus greening disease is caused by a bacterial infection that is delivered by the gnawing of the Asian citrus psyllid. (It’s now believed the psyllid first turned up near the Port of Miami in 1998.) The flea-sized psyllid bites the leaves and transmits the disease, which slowly chokes out the tree’s vascular system from the inside, taking years to finally show itself. By the time a tree is displaying symptoms—three to five years, in most cases—it’s too late…
Read on for an explanation of how this catastrophe has materialized and for a consideration of what it means for Central Florida (and the other major supplier, Brazil, which is also suffering).
“Who Killed the Florida Orange?” from @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com.
Other comestible news from Florida: “A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?“
* Harold Brodkey, First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
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As we contemplate the consequences of climate change and contagion, we might consider an alternative to orange juice on this, National Raisin Day. But while raisins are richly nutricious, they are not so strong on Vitamin C, so we’ll have to keep looking…
#citrus #CitrusGreeningDisease #climateChange #concentrate #culture #Florida #FloridaOranges #history #NationalRaisinDay #orangeJuice #orangeJuiceConcentrate #oranges #politics #raisins #Science -
“Did you have any orange juice today?”*…
… if so, it’s less and less likely that it was from Florida.
The canonical articles on the Florida orange juice industry are John McPhee’s two-parter from The New Yorker from the 1960s. But that was then.
Alex Sammon has picked up the baton, with an article on the brutal, unrelenting decline of that business…
Quiet fell over the room, which was neither full nor very loud to begin with, and the 2026 Florida Citrus Show began.
“It should be a great day,” began the event’s first speaker. “Rain should hold off today, even though we definitely need more rain.” No one laughed.
There was no need to say that things were bad. Everyone knew it. The mood wasn’t sour—citrus farmers could handle sour. It was something else. Postapocalyptic. Florida is in the midst of its worst drought in 25 years, but the dry spell actually ranked far down on the list of challenges these bedraggled growers were facing.
In 2003, the mighty Florida orange industry produced 242 million boxes of fruit, with 90 pounds of oranges per box, most of which went on to become orange juice. Now, not even 25 years later, the United States Department of Agriculture was forecasting a pitiful 12 million boxes of oranges, the least in more than 100 years, the worst year since last. A decline of more than 95 percent.
And everyone knew, more or less, that even that figure was not happening. “Twelve million? I would doubt it,” Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, the state’s largest trade group, told me. There was chatter that even 11 million might be out of reach. Could the total end up being less than that, just seven figures? In Florida, the citrus capital of the world, you are today more likely to see the oranges printed on the state’s 18 million license plates than a box of actual fruit.
Rick Dantzler, chief operating officer of the Citrus Research and Development Foundation, took the podium. He was blunt. “It’s been a dumpster fire of a year,” he said.
On the list of immediate problems: the implementation of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, then the government shutdown, then a stunning, historic freeze, days long, at the end of January and early February, that besieged the fragile orange trees.
And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem. Already, Florida had lost about three-quarters of its citrus growers. The last of them, these spent survivors, these hangers-on, had trudged to the Citrus Show to talk about the real problem, which was the disease.
In 2005, Florida first got signs of a new affliction in its groves called citrus greening disease. It also has a Chinese name, Huanglongbing, or HLB, because it came from China, where oranges also came from in the first place.
Citrus greening disease is caused by a bacterial infection that is delivered by the gnawing of the Asian citrus psyllid. (It’s now believed the psyllid first turned up near the Port of Miami in 1998.) The flea-sized psyllid bites the leaves and transmits the disease, which slowly chokes out the tree’s vascular system from the inside, taking years to finally show itself. By the time a tree is displaying symptoms—three to five years, in most cases—it’s too late…
Read on for an explanation of how this catastrophe has materialized and for a consideration of what it means for Central Florida (and the other major supplier, Brazil, which is also suffering).
“Who Killed the Florida Orange?” from @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com.
Other comestible news from Florida: “A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?“
* Harold Brodkey, First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
###
As we contemplate the consequences of climate change and contagion, we might consider an alternative to orange juice on this, National Raisin Day. But while raisins are richly nutricious, they are not so strong on Vitamin C, so we’ll have to keep looking…
#citrus #CitrusGreeningDisease #climateChange #concentrate #culture #Florida #FloridaOranges #history #NationalRaisinDay #orangeJuice #orangeJuiceConcentrate #oranges #politics #raisins #Science -
“Did you have any orange juice today?”*…
… if so, it’s less and less likely that it was from Florida.
The canonical articles on the Florida orange juice industry are John McPhee’s two-parter from The New Yorker from the 1960s. But that was then.
Alex Sammon has picked up the baton, with an article on the brutal, unrelenting decline of that business…
Quiet fell over the room, which was neither full nor very loud to begin with, and the 2026 Florida Citrus Show began.
“It should be a great day,” began the event’s first speaker. “Rain should hold off today, even though we definitely need more rain.” No one laughed.
There was no need to say that things were bad. Everyone knew it. The mood wasn’t sour—citrus farmers could handle sour. It was something else. Postapocalyptic. Florida is in the midst of its worst drought in 25 years, but the dry spell actually ranked far down on the list of challenges these bedraggled growers were facing.
In 2003, the mighty Florida orange industry produced 242 million boxes of fruit, with 90 pounds of oranges per box, most of which went on to become orange juice. Now, not even 25 years later, the United States Department of Agriculture was forecasting a pitiful 12 million boxes of oranges, the least in more than 100 years, the worst year since last. A decline of more than 95 percent.
And everyone knew, more or less, that even that figure was not happening. “Twelve million? I would doubt it,” Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, the state’s largest trade group, told me. There was chatter that even 11 million might be out of reach. Could the total end up being less than that, just seven figures? In Florida, the citrus capital of the world, you are today more likely to see the oranges printed on the state’s 18 million license plates than a box of actual fruit.
Rick Dantzler, chief operating officer of the Citrus Research and Development Foundation, took the podium. He was blunt. “It’s been a dumpster fire of a year,” he said.
On the list of immediate problems: the implementation of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, then the government shutdown, then a stunning, historic freeze, days long, at the end of January and early February, that besieged the fragile orange trees.
And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem. Already, Florida had lost about three-quarters of its citrus growers. The last of them, these spent survivors, these hangers-on, had trudged to the Citrus Show to talk about the real problem, which was the disease.
In 2005, Florida first got signs of a new affliction in its groves called citrus greening disease. It also has a Chinese name, Huanglongbing, or HLB, because it came from China, where oranges also came from in the first place.
Citrus greening disease is caused by a bacterial infection that is delivered by the gnawing of the Asian citrus psyllid. (It’s now believed the psyllid first turned up near the Port of Miami in 1998.) The flea-sized psyllid bites the leaves and transmits the disease, which slowly chokes out the tree’s vascular system from the inside, taking years to finally show itself. By the time a tree is displaying symptoms—three to five years, in most cases—it’s too late…
Read on for an explanation of how this catastrophe has materialized and for a consideration of what it means for Central Florida (and the other major supplier, Brazil, which is also suffering).
“Who Killed the Florida Orange?” from @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com.
Other comestible news from Florida: “A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?“
* Harold Brodkey, First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
###
As we contemplate the consequences of climate change and contagion, we might consider an alternative to orange juice on this, National Raisin Day. But while raisins are richly nutricious, they are not so strong on Vitamin C, so we’ll have to keep looking…
#citrus #CitrusGreeningDisease #climateChange #concentrate #culture #Florida #FloridaOranges #history #NationalRaisinDay #orangeJuice #orangeJuiceConcentrate #oranges #politics #raisins #Science -
“Did you have any orange juice today?”*…
… if so, it’s less and less likely that it was from Florida.
The canonical articles on the Florida orange juice industry are John McPhee’s two-parter from The New Yorker from the 1960s. But that was then.
Alex Sammon has picked up the baton, with an article on the brutal, unrelenting decline of that business…
Quiet fell over the room, which was neither full nor very loud to begin with, and the 2026 Florida Citrus Show began.
“It should be a great day,” began the event’s first speaker. “Rain should hold off today, even though we definitely need more rain.” No one laughed.
There was no need to say that things were bad. Everyone knew it. The mood wasn’t sour—citrus farmers could handle sour. It was something else. Postapocalyptic. Florida is in the midst of its worst drought in 25 years, but the dry spell actually ranked far down on the list of challenges these bedraggled growers were facing.
In 2003, the mighty Florida orange industry produced 242 million boxes of fruit, with 90 pounds of oranges per box, most of which went on to become orange juice. Now, not even 25 years later, the United States Department of Agriculture was forecasting a pitiful 12 million boxes of oranges, the least in more than 100 years, the worst year since last. A decline of more than 95 percent.
And everyone knew, more or less, that even that figure was not happening. “Twelve million? I would doubt it,” Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, the state’s largest trade group, told me. There was chatter that even 11 million might be out of reach. Could the total end up being less than that, just seven figures? In Florida, the citrus capital of the world, you are today more likely to see the oranges printed on the state’s 18 million license plates than a box of actual fruit.
Rick Dantzler, chief operating officer of the Citrus Research and Development Foundation, took the podium. He was blunt. “It’s been a dumpster fire of a year,” he said.
On the list of immediate problems: the implementation of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, then the government shutdown, then a stunning, historic freeze, days long, at the end of January and early February, that besieged the fragile orange trees.
And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem. Already, Florida had lost about three-quarters of its citrus growers. The last of them, these spent survivors, these hangers-on, had trudged to the Citrus Show to talk about the real problem, which was the disease.
In 2005, Florida first got signs of a new affliction in its groves called citrus greening disease. It also has a Chinese name, Huanglongbing, or HLB, because it came from China, where oranges also came from in the first place.
Citrus greening disease is caused by a bacterial infection that is delivered by the gnawing of the Asian citrus psyllid. (It’s now believed the psyllid first turned up near the Port of Miami in 1998.) The flea-sized psyllid bites the leaves and transmits the disease, which slowly chokes out the tree’s vascular system from the inside, taking years to finally show itself. By the time a tree is displaying symptoms—three to five years, in most cases—it’s too late…
Read on for an explanation of how this catastrophe has materialized and for a consideration of what it means for Central Florida (and the other major supplier, Brazil, which is also suffering).
“Who Killed the Florida Orange?” from @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com.
Other comestible news from Florida: “A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?“
* Harold Brodkey, First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
###
As we contemplate the consequences of climate change and contagion, we might consider an alternative to orange juice on this, National Raisin Day. But while raisins are richly nutricious, they are not so strong on Vitamin C, so we’ll have to keep looking…
#citrus #CitrusGreeningDisease #climateChange #concentrate #culture #Florida #FloridaOranges #history #NationalRaisinDay #orangeJuice #orangeJuiceConcentrate #oranges #politics #raisins #Science -
“Did you have any orange juice today?”*…
… if so, it’s less and less likely that it was from Florida.
The canonical articles on the Florida orange juice industry are John McPhee’s two-parter from The New Yorker from the 1960s. But that was then.
Alex Sammon has picked up the baton, with an article on the brutal, unrelenting decline of that business…
Quiet fell over the room, which was neither full nor very loud to begin with, and the 2026 Florida Citrus Show began.
“It should be a great day,” began the event’s first speaker. “Rain should hold off today, even though we definitely need more rain.” No one laughed.
There was no need to say that things were bad. Everyone knew it. The mood wasn’t sour—citrus farmers could handle sour. It was something else. Postapocalyptic. Florida is in the midst of its worst drought in 25 years, but the dry spell actually ranked far down on the list of challenges these bedraggled growers were facing.
In 2003, the mighty Florida orange industry produced 242 million boxes of fruit, with 90 pounds of oranges per box, most of which went on to become orange juice. Now, not even 25 years later, the United States Department of Agriculture was forecasting a pitiful 12 million boxes of oranges, the least in more than 100 years, the worst year since last. A decline of more than 95 percent.
And everyone knew, more or less, that even that figure was not happening. “Twelve million? I would doubt it,” Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, the state’s largest trade group, told me. There was chatter that even 11 million might be out of reach. Could the total end up being less than that, just seven figures? In Florida, the citrus capital of the world, you are today more likely to see the oranges printed on the state’s 18 million license plates than a box of actual fruit.
Rick Dantzler, chief operating officer of the Citrus Research and Development Foundation, took the podium. He was blunt. “It’s been a dumpster fire of a year,” he said.
On the list of immediate problems: the implementation of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, then the government shutdown, then a stunning, historic freeze, days long, at the end of January and early February, that besieged the fragile orange trees.
And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem. Already, Florida had lost about three-quarters of its citrus growers. The last of them, these spent survivors, these hangers-on, had trudged to the Citrus Show to talk about the real problem, which was the disease.
In 2005, Florida first got signs of a new affliction in its groves called citrus greening disease. It also has a Chinese name, Huanglongbing, or HLB, because it came from China, where oranges also came from in the first place.
Citrus greening disease is caused by a bacterial infection that is delivered by the gnawing of the Asian citrus psyllid. (It’s now believed the psyllid first turned up near the Port of Miami in 1998.) The flea-sized psyllid bites the leaves and transmits the disease, which slowly chokes out the tree’s vascular system from the inside, taking years to finally show itself. By the time a tree is displaying symptoms—three to five years, in most cases—it’s too late…
Read on for an explanation of how this catastrophe has materialized and for a consideration of what it means for Central Florida (and the other major supplier, Brazil, which is also suffering).
“Who Killed the Florida Orange?” from @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com.
Other comestible news from Florida: “A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?“
* Harold Brodkey, First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
###
As we contemplate the consequences of climate change and contagion, we might consider an alternative to orange juice on this, National Raisin Day. But while raisins are richly nutricious, they are not so strong on Vitamin C, so we’ll have to keep looking…
#citrus #CitrusGreeningDisease #climateChange #concentrate #culture #Florida #FloridaOranges #history #NationalRaisinDay #orangeJuice #orangeJuiceConcentrate #oranges #politics #raisins #Science -
Florida loses its ‘Citrus Capital of the World’ moniker
Blame the Chinese?
It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It.
In 2003, the mighty #Florida orange industry produced 242 million boxes of fruit, with 90 pounds of #oranges per box, most of which went on to become orange juice. Now, not even 25 years later, the United States Department of Agriculture was forecasting a pitiful 12 million boxes of oranges, the least in more than 100 years, the worst year since last. A decline of more than 95 percent.
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#Florida is about to lose its most famous symbol forever. What happened to #oranges?
“Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.
Under duress, the trees would drop all their fruit on the ground prematurely.
What rare fruit survived to maturity on these little, addled trees was misshapen, acrid, and stubbornly green on one end; in short, it tasted terrible.
The juice was gross.”
https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food-houses-real-estate.html
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Community comes together as Mount Pleasant Food Forest takes root
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) — Volunteers in Mount Pleasant spent Sunday planting the town’s first food forest, a project leaders say will provide fresh produce, create community connections and grow i…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #blueberries #foodforest #MountPleasant #oranges #plums #r.l.jonesrecreationcenter #root
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Community comes together as Mount Pleasant Food Forest takes root
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) — Volunteers in Mount Pleasant spent Sunday planting the town’s first food forest, a project leaders say will provide fresh produce, create community connections and grow i…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #blueberries #foodforest #MountPleasant #oranges #plums #r.l.jonesrecreationcenter #root
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Community comes together as Mount Pleasant Food Forest takes root
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) — Volunteers in Mount Pleasant spent Sunday planting the town’s first food forest, a project leaders say will provide fresh produce, create community connections and grow i…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #blueberries #foodforest #MountPleasant #oranges #plums #r.l.jonesrecreationcenter #root
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Community comes together as Mount Pleasant Food Forest takes root
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) — Volunteers in Mount Pleasant spent Sunday planting the town’s first food forest, a project leaders say will provide fresh produce, create community connections and grow i…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #blueberries #foodforest #MountPleasant #oranges #plums #r.l.jonesrecreationcenter #root
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Community comes together as Mount Pleasant Food Forest takes root https://www.diningandcooking.com/2606645/community-comes-together-as-mount-pleasant-food-forest-takes-root/ #blueberries #food #FoodForest #MountPleasant #oranges #plums #RLJonesRecreationCenter #root
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Community comes together as Mount Pleasant Food Forest takes root https://www.diningandcooking.com/2606645/community-comes-together-as-mount-pleasant-food-forest-takes-root/ #blueberries #food #FoodForest #MountPleasant #oranges #plums #RLJonesRecreationCenter #root
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Community comes together as Mount Pleasant Food Forest takes root https://www.diningandcooking.com/2606645/community-comes-together-as-mount-pleasant-food-forest-takes-root/ #blueberries #food #FoodForest #MountPleasant #oranges #plums #RLJonesRecreationCenter #root
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Shikoku has the best brood oranges, just so you know.
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Shikoku has the best brood oranges, just so you know.
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Shikoku has the best brood oranges, just so you know.
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Because human gullibility is forever...
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DotHPxNib/
#marketing #snakeoil #fake #influence #diamonds #oranges #birthstones
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Because human gullibility is forever...
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DotHPxNib/
#marketing #snakeoil #fake #influence #diamonds #oranges #birthstones
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Because human gullibility is forever...
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DotHPxNib/
#marketing #snakeoil #fake #influence #diamonds #oranges #birthstones
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Because human gullibility is forever...
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#marketing #snakeoil #fake #influence #diamonds #oranges #birthstones
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#Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993) -
#Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993) -
#Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993) -
#Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993) -
#Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993) -
Fall Foliage on the Hawstone/Denholm Road. Pennsylvania. Watercolor. #foliage #fall #fallfoliage #leaves #leavesturning #turningleaves #colorful #fallcolor #denholm #hawstone #juniatacounty #mifflincounty #pennsylvania #autumn #reds #oranges #yellows #painting #painter #art #arting #artist #scenery
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Fall Foliage on the Hawstone/Denholm Road. Pennsylvania. Watercolor. #foliage #fall #fallfoliage #leaves #leavesturning #turningleaves #colorful #fallcolor #denholm #hawstone #juniatacounty #mifflincounty #pennsylvania #autumn #reds #oranges #yellows #painting #painter #art #arting #artist #scenery
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Fall Foliage on the Hawstone/Denholm Road. Pennsylvania. Watercolor. #foliage #fall #fallfoliage #leaves #leavesturning #turningleaves #colorful #fallcolor #denholm #hawstone #juniatacounty #mifflincounty #pennsylvania #autumn #reds #oranges #yellows #painting #painter #art #arting #artist #scenery
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Fall Foliage on the Hawstone/Denholm Road. Pennsylvania. Watercolor. #foliage #fall #fallfoliage #leaves #leavesturning #turningleaves #colorful #fallcolor #denholm #hawstone #juniatacounty #mifflincounty #pennsylvania #autumn #reds #oranges #yellows #painting #painter #art #arting #artist #scenery
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Fall Foliage on the Hawstone/Denholm Road. Pennsylvania. Watercolor. #foliage #fall #fallfoliage #leaves #leavesturning #turningleaves #colorful #fallcolor #denholm #hawstone #juniatacounty #mifflincounty #pennsylvania #autumn #reds #oranges #yellows #painting #painter #art #arting #artist #scenery
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#US - #Farmers sound alarm as rare weather phenomenon threatens staple crops: 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal'
Story by Leslie Sattler, February 4, 2026
"A brutal freeze gripped Florida over the weekend. It forced fruit and berry growers into all-night efforts to save their harvests from frost damage, reported AccuWeather.
What's happening?
"Temperatures fell to the 20s and 30s across the central and southern portions of the state. At those temperatures, crops can suffer harm within a short window.
"Growers ran water over their fields after dark. Though it sounds backward, spraying crops with water actually protects them. Ice forming on plants releases small amounts of heat, keeping the fruit warmer than the surrounding air.
" 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal,' said Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual. 'Family gets recruited. Everybody gets recruited to go out and help in preparation.'
"Joyner noted that growers haven't faced cold this severe since 2010.
"Plant City orange grower Trevor Murphy said his trees sat in sub-28-degree air for six-plus hours on back-to-back nights. He's already spotting damage and believes many of the young trees he planted this winter won't survive.
" 'Coldest and longest duration of cold I've had since I've been growing oranges,' Murphy told AccuWeather.
"AccuWeather projects that 8% to 10% of unharvested oranges may be ruined. Another cold stretch looms this weekend."
#FoodInsecurity #HungerGames #ClimateChange #ColdWeather #Florida #Oranges #CitrusFruit
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#US - #Farmers sound alarm as rare weather phenomenon threatens staple crops: 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal'
Story by Leslie Sattler, February 4, 2026
"A brutal freeze gripped Florida over the weekend. It forced fruit and berry growers into all-night efforts to save their harvests from frost damage, reported AccuWeather.
What's happening?
"Temperatures fell to the 20s and 30s across the central and southern portions of the state. At those temperatures, crops can suffer harm within a short window.
"Growers ran water over their fields after dark. Though it sounds backward, spraying crops with water actually protects them. Ice forming on plants releases small amounts of heat, keeping the fruit warmer than the surrounding air.
" 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal,' said Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual. 'Family gets recruited. Everybody gets recruited to go out and help in preparation.'
"Joyner noted that growers haven't faced cold this severe since 2010.
"Plant City orange grower Trevor Murphy said his trees sat in sub-28-degree air for six-plus hours on back-to-back nights. He's already spotting damage and believes many of the young trees he planted this winter won't survive.
" 'Coldest and longest duration of cold I've had since I've been growing oranges,' Murphy told AccuWeather.
"AccuWeather projects that 8% to 10% of unharvested oranges may be ruined. Another cold stretch looms this weekend."
#FoodInsecurity #HungerGames #ClimateChange #ColdWeather #Florida #Oranges #CitrusFruit
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#US - #Farmers sound alarm as rare weather phenomenon threatens staple crops: 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal'
Story by Leslie Sattler, February 4, 2026
"A brutal freeze gripped Florida over the weekend. It forced fruit and berry growers into all-night efforts to save their harvests from frost damage, reported AccuWeather.
What's happening?
"Temperatures fell to the 20s and 30s across the central and southern portions of the state. At those temperatures, crops can suffer harm within a short window.
"Growers ran water over their fields after dark. Though it sounds backward, spraying crops with water actually protects them. Ice forming on plants releases small amounts of heat, keeping the fruit warmer than the surrounding air.
" 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal,' said Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual. 'Family gets recruited. Everybody gets recruited to go out and help in preparation.'
"Joyner noted that growers haven't faced cold this severe since 2010.
"Plant City orange grower Trevor Murphy said his trees sat in sub-28-degree air for six-plus hours on back-to-back nights. He's already spotting damage and believes many of the young trees he planted this winter won't survive.
" 'Coldest and longest duration of cold I've had since I've been growing oranges,' Murphy told AccuWeather.
"AccuWeather projects that 8% to 10% of unharvested oranges may be ruined. Another cold stretch looms this weekend."
#FoodInsecurity #HungerGames #ClimateChange #ColdWeather #Florida #Oranges #CitrusFruit
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#US - #Farmers sound alarm as rare weather phenomenon threatens staple crops: 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal'
Story by Leslie Sattler, February 4, 2026
"A brutal freeze gripped Florida over the weekend. It forced fruit and berry growers into all-night efforts to save their harvests from frost damage, reported AccuWeather.
What's happening?
"Temperatures fell to the 20s and 30s across the central and southern portions of the state. At those temperatures, crops can suffer harm within a short window.
"Growers ran water over their fields after dark. Though it sounds backward, spraying crops with water actually protects them. Ice forming on plants releases small amounts of heat, keeping the fruit warmer than the surrounding air.
" 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal,' said Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual. 'Family gets recruited. Everybody gets recruited to go out and help in preparation.'
"Joyner noted that growers haven't faced cold this severe since 2010.
"Plant City orange grower Trevor Murphy said his trees sat in sub-28-degree air for six-plus hours on back-to-back nights. He's already spotting damage and believes many of the young trees he planted this winter won't survive.
" 'Coldest and longest duration of cold I've had since I've been growing oranges,' Murphy told AccuWeather.
"AccuWeather projects that 8% to 10% of unharvested oranges may be ruined. Another cold stretch looms this weekend."
#FoodInsecurity #HungerGames #ClimateChange #ColdWeather #Florida #Oranges #CitrusFruit
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#US - #Farmers sound alarm as rare weather phenomenon threatens staple crops: 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal'
Story by Leslie Sattler, February 4, 2026
"A brutal freeze gripped Florida over the weekend. It forced fruit and berry growers into all-night efforts to save their harvests from frost damage, reported AccuWeather.
What's happening?
"Temperatures fell to the 20s and 30s across the central and southern portions of the state. At those temperatures, crops can suffer harm within a short window.
"Growers ran water over their fields after dark. Though it sounds backward, spraying crops with water actually protects them. Ice forming on plants releases small amounts of heat, keeping the fruit warmer than the surrounding air.
" 'It's an all-hands-on-deck deal,' said Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual. 'Family gets recruited. Everybody gets recruited to go out and help in preparation.'
"Joyner noted that growers haven't faced cold this severe since 2010.
"Plant City orange grower Trevor Murphy said his trees sat in sub-28-degree air for six-plus hours on back-to-back nights. He's already spotting damage and believes many of the young trees he planted this winter won't survive.
" 'Coldest and longest duration of cold I've had since I've been growing oranges,' Murphy told AccuWeather.
"AccuWeather projects that 8% to 10% of unharvested oranges may be ruined. Another cold stretch looms this weekend."
#FoodInsecurity #HungerGames #ClimateChange #ColdWeather #Florida #Oranges #CitrusFruit
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Good morning. 🍊🍊🍊
3 October 2025
I had a plumber come in yesterday to unstop our kitchen sink. He was a nice enough young man and did a good job, but the cost to get him to snake out the drain gave me sticker shock. It was nearly twice what it was the last time I called them. I imagined being told in an Eastern European accent "the price is the price." The plumbing company is the one I normally call, but the next time I need the sink unplugged I might consider calling somebody else, or not I'll have to wait and see how I feel at the time.
We're supposed to walk this morning but I'm again getting a late start. We may just do a few laps around the property today. One lap is roughly a quarter mile so I can get a little exercise in that way and Charlie stays off the leash when we stay here so he can run and jump or just get inquisitive about all of the surrounding scents. I'll need to dig out my waterproof hiking shoes; there is dew in the morning.
After that, I may tend to the bird feeders, because they don't tend to themselves. I get to feeling a little bad when I look out and there are birds just hanging around empty feeders while staring at the backdoor. You'd think that I'm exaggerating, which I may be, but it sure seems like that's what they do.
“The price is the price.” — Taken (film, 2008) — sovereign utterance from the Ministry of Unyielding Transactions
“But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” — E.B. White
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” — Henry David Thoreau
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #oranges #fruit #plumber #walk
