When I was a kid it was popular to grow fruit trees in the front of one’s home or even the parkway. I, like other kids, would help ourselves to the oranges, lemons, limes, loquat, avocado and kumquats I would encounter in my travels. Today, many of those old trees still exist in our town and in our parkway there is an old loquat which kids climb into and partake of the fruit. Each year as the kids leave a mess in the parkway I remind myself of the pleasure of adventure and the wonder of eating found fruit. [...]