Tuesday, October 21, 2025

QUINCES


 There is an eyeglass shop downtown that creates beautiful window displays. I cropped out the eyeglasses here to show these lovely quinces. Quinces are an ancient fruit (3,000-5,000 years old, and come from near the Caspian Sea in Iran. All that still doesn't make me a fan of whatever one makes of them; I've tried.  But they're great for photos.

1 comment:

Peter van den Besselaar said...

Quinces are só difficult in the kitchen, although i do like membrillo (quine paste) with cheese

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