The top two pictures were taken in the orchard at Hidcote Gardens. I’m offering several takes on sweetness to justify my extra helpings claim, starting with the child you can just make out running with so much vim on the left of the apple picture, and the pear below. Sorry, merely looking at these doesn’t equate to two of your five portions a day…
…although munching your way through one of these heaped berry packs at lunchtime would set you in good stead.
[Aside: While we’re thinking of red fruits and Hidcote, here’s a link to my earlier post about Hidcote’s famous red border.]
Back to sweetness. For those who don’t like fruit (don’t like fruit!?) I ought perhaps to have offered one of these (ignore any with fruit on ’em)…
…but it’d have been expensive, decadent even; would only have lasted a minute; would’ve been a risk to your pearly whites… need I go on? Best glimpsed through a window, don’t you think?
If you’re craving more sweetness, check out the other interpretations of sweet on the Daily Post.
Susan Rushton 
I can taste them now yummy
Funny how a picture can convey a flavour sensation – the human mind is a wonderful thing.
Don’t like fruit? What a thought! A day without fruit just doesn’t feel right. Thanks for posting those lovely photos of sweetness.
My sister says she doesn’t like fruit and my mother says she hasn’t got a sweet tooth. I have seen them both eating cherry pie many times with apparent relish, but perhaps it is just done for my sake.
Ooooh these cakes!
They’re designed to be enjoyed with the eyes, not just the tastebuds.
Those berries! They made my mouth water. Especially those red strawberries. I cannot imagine not having red in a garden in small sexy doses. So exciting, and the bold and sensuous beauty of that color . . . ! Personally, I think to banish it from a garden would be the equivalent of banishing sex. (Hmmm . . . maybe that explains the heated protests from the aristocrat?)
You mean perhaps he was shocked by the bold and sensuous dahlias?
Oh, my. Here you go again, making me choose. I’ll skip the pear (just don’t like pears at all except, funnily enough, tinned ones!), enjoy the berry punnet and (sorry) will just have to have one of ALL those sweet delights. One a day perhaps?
One a day would be a real treat – or perhaps someone could make one bite versions and invite us to an all you can eat very tiny cake party…
Now that would be a great idea.
Great way to start my morning….sweet raspberries and your post! Always enjoy what you have to say and show!
Thanks for being kind enough to say so!
The fruits and the cakes look both delicious! Wish I could pick one of those lovely apples! 😊🍎🍐🍰❤
Apples always look that bit tastier on the tree!
I think I’d take four servings of fruit to earn one of those luscious desserts.
Probably a fair exchange if you don’t much like fruit!
I like fruit. How about eight servings of fruit for a dessert?
Thanks for making me laugh so hard!
I got more hungrier with each picture as I scrolled downward…and what a “finish.” Those cakes look too good to eat…but I would anyway.
I know the feeling – some of these comments are making me wish I’d gone in and eaten one while I had the chance!
All the fruit looks beautiful and the photo of the apples with those beads of water on them makes me long for rain. I do anyway, we haven’t seen any for a month. And while on a trip to France, we made sure we had a cake every day! Not something I would do at home.
That’s the joy of being on holiday – the normal rules don’t apply. If we could really modify our environment, the sunshine and rainfall would be more evenly shared out!
Sweets are hard to resist! I have to tell myself “poison” repeatedly in order to move on!
I resist sweets pretty well unless they somehow get in the house. But I wonder if that would work when I’m tempted to eat too many twice baked jacket potatoes with cheese?
Oh, gosh, tough choice! 😉
What a post! Not only am I a pearaholic, but I am totally enamored of apples. That top photo rocked me backwards (and thanks for mentioning that running child — I’d never have noticed). It is beautiful, beautiful! I won’t mention my sweet tooth: it embarrasses even me. As to the rant, I thank you for the laugh! Yes, he who rants should get his own space! All in all, a lovely beginning to my day!
Pearaholic is a great word, despite the system ‘usefully’ correcting it to parabolic. The spellcheck is adamantly opposed to plant names and invention. If it could write, not merely correct, I’m convinced it would not be particularly grammatical.
Oh, “the system”! It doesn’t know a pear from a parabola! It’s forever telling me I don’t mean what I do mean. (I have known people like that too!) Phoo on such puniness! Hoorar for invention! (The System doesn’t like hoorar either. Hopeless.)