Pear Country

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I never gave much thought to where pears come from till I moved to the PNW. Harry and David's a large and very old U.S. fruit distributor is located here, and they add a lot of scenery and jobs to this area.




I thought these were wind generators but while camping in the yard with my son a while back, I woke up to what sounded like we were being invaded by helicopters. Turns out they're giant fans to move lots of air to protect the trees, fruit and buds from frost.








Nearby Mt. McGloughlin
 
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Looks like my neck of the woods, I'm in Yakima. The wind machines by our house remind me of a P-51 Mustang ready for takeoff.
 
Great pics, thanks for sharing. I hadn't a clue where pears came from
 
I think pears are produced in the same areas of the country that apples are produced, and like apples the Pacific Northwest produces most of the country’s pears. Also a popular crop in areas of the Deep South and west of the Rockies in Utah and southern New Mexico.

Here are a couple of pics my wife took years ago of me feeding pears to a mule deer buck in Capitol Reef National Park ("red rock" canyon country in Utah), where a few trees remained from an orchard at an old homestead site there.

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He got a little braver after I cut up a couple for him...:D

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Wow! You are Brave Will. After seeing Whitetails in kill mode on video, I don't know if I could get that close to a even larger species in the open like that.:eek:

Great Pics.
 
I stayed at a B&B in Cashmere 3 weeks ago. Pears are big in the Wenatchee valley. While it's too early yet to get any pears I did hear the wind machines in the morning.
 
Very beautiful pictures :thumbup: We used to have a couple pear treas in the back yard, when they blossomed in the spring it always smelled so incredible.

Lexi said:
I love home made pear wine. Sounds really good about right now!
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Pear wine does sound pretty delicious right now. :D Yummy!
 
Love me some pears. I will say that hand feeding Mule Deer would be hard for me. They just taste to good. ;)
 
That is crazy close to a mule deer. I wish whitetails liked pears that much, I would stock up on them for this fall.

Garth
 
That buck was hanging around the homesite eating what was on the ground and obviously had been getting help from tourists like us for awhile. He was well-accustomed to human contact. Still, as those kinds of encounters go, it was the most mature male deer I've ever seen eat from a human hand "in the wild".
 
When I had a chance to visit Yellowstone a few years ago I was amazed at how calm many of the "wild" animals were.

Garth
 
Still not sure I would have gotten that close though. It would be my luck that he was having a bad day.

Garth
 
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