On November 10th, I set an Osage orange fruit on the corner of my deck.
Nov. 10, 2013
I cut it to see inside the softball-sized fruit.
November 10, 2013
Time passed.
November 16
November 23
The fruit got frosted.
November 29
December 7
December 14
The fruit got iced.
December 21
The fruit got snowed on.
December 24
And the snow melted.
December 28
UPDATED: The freezing and thawing of the fruit continued through this long, cold, snowy winter in Northern Illinois.
January 6, 2014
The fruit continued to change shape, and the cracks in the larger half deepened.
January 7
January 11
Apparently, there were also pooping birds:
January 19
January 25
January 27
To the north east of my deck, construction of a neighboring house continued, slowly, through the winter.
February 2
This photo was taken during a falling of fluffy snowflakes.
February 8
February 15
February 22
March 1
March 7
Occasionally, one or both pieces of the Osage orange would fall off the deck railing after a storm, and I would replace the pieces on the deck. In the picture below, I’ve turned them over to show what was happening where the oranges contacted the wood.
March 15
March 28
April 12
Snows still came well into the spring season this year.
April 14
May 3
May 26
And recent observations show the fruits to be much grayer, smaller, and lighter-weight than they had been.
July 18
And in the background, the new house to the left (north) below has been completed, and another house to the right (east) has been begun.
July 18, 2014
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Here is an update of a photo sequence first posted last December.