Wild Plums

During our recent visit to Iowa to see the grand-kids, the wild plums were starting to ripen at the Fisher Wildlife Area near Chuck & Nikki's "farm" property.



The search was on for the ripest/sweetest plums for picking.



Nikki plans to make wild plum jelly from this 1/2 bucket of plums.



After hand-pitting these plums, Nikki started cooking the plums for jelly.



Since we don't have any wild plums in our area, I brought the plum pits home and will attempt to propagate some local wild plums. During our flights home I had to open my carry-on bag twice for TSA security to check my bag of plum pits.