Peach Pickers

After a great Independence Day celebration with friends we took an afternoon trip to Marburger Orchard in the Texas Hill Country.  It was a sweet way to spend a warm afternoon as a family.  Before you can be a certified picker, you get to learn a few facts about peaches.  One of which was a big surprise to me.  Are yo ready for it?  When you pick peaches, you should look for a really nice golden yellow color.  No green (duh) and ... get this... don't pay any attention to the red on the peach!  It gives no indication of the ripeness, flavor or, well, anything.  It is essentially a sunburn on the peach.  Seriously?  I have picked peaches my entire life (at the grocery store albeit) looking for the peach that most closely matches the ones that Clement Heard depicted in The Little Engine That Could.  I figured if those peaches were good enough for the good little boys and girls on the other side of the mountain, they were good enough for me.  Well, the good news is that after having this for dinner, I would say the peaches we picked were just right!

...see if you can find the picture of three hot Leeses in a peach tree!