Avocados, mushrooms, limes, banana, plum jelly fruit , a strange fruit/nut and spiders, oh my--we are not in Kansas anymore Toto! All you have to do is walk around Gateway and you can have a pretty good, healthy (we think!) lunch!

There
are about 6 banana trees and an equal amount of lime trees, all being
constantly picked by residents for snacks, dressing, to use with/for
avocados, cereal and/or with peanut butter, rum cokes for cooking.

Even
with all the avocados we picked the top of the tree is still loaded
with them and, in time, should start falling to be gathered by whoever
is around there.

In
front of the community room, in the past 2 days, a load of large white
mushrooms have come up and someone said that they are good to eat as she
has made dishes with them.

Now
there is the coco-plum plant that we have discovered is okay for eating
and for making jelly still leaving us with another mysterious fruit/nut
that, hopefully will soon be identified as edible.

We
do need to get someone from the agricultural department of the
University to come over and help us identify all the plants and other
trees because I have a feeling a lot more could be added to our 'salad'.

Something
else--and I am going to have to learn how to take their pictures--are
the spider and webs they weave all over the trees. In the left picture
on the upper right, looking like a blob, is the spider and the web falls
to the left going to the bottom of the picture while in the right
picture the black odd shaped figure in the middle is another spider.

Come
on down to Gateway Terrace and as we walk along The Point we can pick
our lunch, make a big fresh salad and nibble on chocolate covered
spiders!  :O)

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"Genius is nothing but labor and diligence."

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