Down yonder in the pawpaw patch

We had no pawpaws last year that I know of. I looked for them but the season was very dry. This year it has rained every week and sometimes more than one day a week. You need a lot of rain for a good pawpaw crop.

For some reason, pawpaws refuse to be photographed. I can't get a good picture for anything. Probably because I am always swatting mosquitoes down there in the freaking patch. Neither photo accurately shows the color of a pawpaw. The top photo is too green and the bottom is too blue. The fruit is a very light green at this stage and it goes brown and spotted as it ripens.

Right now they are a little bigger than plums, but nothing like the ones this fella has. Who ever saw a pawpaw this big?

Here's another pawpaw photo that sucks just as bad as the first. But I think you can at least see in the photos the huge (untoothed) leaves of the scraggly "Indiana banana" tree.