There are cherries in Central Park. Mullberries, too. If you know where to look. One of the places is the North half of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. I went up that way instead of going South like I usually do, and I guess this is more evidence towards the fact that I've got a built-in fruit radar.
The cherries weren't too surprising, since I'd seen blossoms around earlier. That there were still some ripe ones on the trees was what had me stop and stare, and then try to figure out how to reach them. Grabbing low-hanging branches to pull down the higher ones to get to the fruit always works. I got three of them, none of them really ripe, not that it mattered - free-range fruit in Central Park.
The mullberries were trickier. Most of the trees weren't ripe or just out of reach on the other side of the fence keeping people out of the water. The one tree I could reach with ripe berries didn't have any branches low enough for me to grab even when I jumped. It's true I can't jump too high and that I didn't try for a running start, but I don't think that would've helped much. What I did was grab a piece of fencing that the Park usually uses to wall off part of a path, positioned it just right, and climbed up to get a few more inches to my reach, and then I got some berries. Someone walked by while I was eating them and I offered him some, and the funny thing wasn't that he turned them down but that he turned them down and then after I told him they were mulberries he asked me what those were. I even told him "delicious" but he still didn't go for any.
I wandered around the Park for a while after that, enjoying the feeling of moving in dry heat, and took some pictures of the Black Eyed Peas while they were setting up for a concert tomorrow night. They would've been better if my ears hadn't been clogged and I could've heard them. The stage was still pretty good.
There was also a good number of turtles, a small heron, and the rare sight of a cormorant swallowing down a fish. I haven't seen one do that in a good while - you need exactly the right timing, a lot of patience, or both. Today I just happened to be in the right spot at the right time.
The cherries weren't too surprising, since I'd seen blossoms around earlier. That there were still some ripe ones on the trees was what had me stop and stare, and then try to figure out how to reach them. Grabbing low-hanging branches to pull down the higher ones to get to the fruit always works. I got three of them, none of them really ripe, not that it mattered - free-range fruit in Central Park.
The mullberries were trickier. Most of the trees weren't ripe or just out of reach on the other side of the fence keeping people out of the water. The one tree I could reach with ripe berries didn't have any branches low enough for me to grab even when I jumped. It's true I can't jump too high and that I didn't try for a running start, but I don't think that would've helped much. What I did was grab a piece of fencing that the Park usually uses to wall off part of a path, positioned it just right, and climbed up to get a few more inches to my reach, and then I got some berries. Someone walked by while I was eating them and I offered him some, and the funny thing wasn't that he turned them down but that he turned them down and then after I told him they were mulberries he asked me what those were. I even told him "delicious" but he still didn't go for any.
I wandered around the Park for a while after that, enjoying the feeling of moving in dry heat, and took some pictures of the Black Eyed Peas while they were setting up for a concert tomorrow night. They would've been better if my ears hadn't been clogged and I could've heard them. The stage was still pretty good.
There was also a good number of turtles, a small heron, and the rare sight of a cormorant swallowing down a fish. I haven't seen one do that in a good while - you need exactly the right timing, a lot of patience, or both. Today I just happened to be in the right spot at the right time.
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