I love finding Life Lessons around me!

I’ve just returned from Melbourne. My white mulberry tree, to my great joy, is still bearing fruit. So I’ve been making up for lost time and enjoying their sweetness.  (Although the ripe fruit does look a bit like witchety grubs at first glance!)

And then I noticed that some older berries still hanging on gamely to their branches despite being brown, shrivelled and shrunken. I’m not quite sure why, but I decided to eat them anyway. Maybe because I’d missed out on some of the crop by being away.

And these ugly brown mulberries taste best of all. Concentrated sweetness and a lovely chewy texture.

So first impressions aren’t always correct.

And ugly things can be better than the beautiful, pristine ones.