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Sue’s Word a Week – Orange

I love the sunny color of orange, and the sweet flavor as well.  No place salutes orange better than Orange Works in Strathmore, CA  on the west side of Highway 65. I drive thirty miles just for a taste.   The orange picker brings in crates of warm oranges from the field outside the back door of the…

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I love the sunny color of orange, and the sweet flavor as well.  No place salutes orange better than Orange Works in Strathmore, CA  on the west side of Highway 65.

Orange works1I drive thirty miles just for a taste.   The orange picker brings in crates of warm oranges from the field outside the back door of the restaurant. He squeezes the whole crate of them into just one pitcher.  From there the juice magically turns into ice cream or smoothies.

It’s the perfect treat for a hot, dry California summer day.

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17 responses to “Sue’s Word a Week – Orange”

  1. smilingtoad Avatar
    smilingtoad

    Oh yes, marvelous. Scrumptious and crackling is your description. Just my kind of place, I must say! Can just taste it.

    The photo and your description reminds me very much of a local place here. We amble off to it when the oranges are in season. It is known as Harvey’s. They has been in business since 1926, its nascence marked alongside the busy Rt 1 as a little fruit stand of oranges and grapefruit. Now brimming with rows and rows of blazing oranges. It is one of the few family-owned orange groves in Florida. Beautiful and historic, with the same classic farmhouse architecture and the wind-lashed white paint peeling in the sunlight as one comes swanning through the entrance. Har har, and the oranges are absolutely superb.

    Cheers,

    Autumn Jade

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      You are wetting my appetite. That’s not a good thing. It’s pretty healthy! 🙂 I love your description. It could be the same place. Maybe they copied! 🙂

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  2. diannegray Avatar
    diannegray

    Yum! My grandparents owned an citrus orchard and I clearly remember the beautiful taste of freshly squeezed oranges 😀

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      That’s the best in my opinion. 🙂 Did your new book come out?

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      1. diannegray Avatar
        diannegray

        No I haven’t had it proof read yet. After that I’ll need to go through it again and make changes and then…hopefully, it’ll come out 😀

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      Have a sunny week! 🙂

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  4. the eternal traveller Avatar
    the eternal traveller

    That sounds delicious. We must go there when I come to visit. Our citrus trees are loaded with fruit at the moment. I’m eating a mandarine every day, but the oranges need a good frost to sweeten them up a little. We have more limes than we can cope with and I’m giving them away left, right and centre. Would you like some?

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      I’d love a lime. A friend gave me a bunch of gorgeous and delicious lemons the other day. This is really citrus country, but it sounds like your area is, too. Can’t wait until you get here! 🙂

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      1. the eternal traveller Avatar
        the eternal traveller

        Citrus grow pretty well in most places here. We have four trees in our back yard and they are all loaded. I can’t wait either! Soon…

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        1. tchistorygal Avatar
          tchistorygal

          🙂 What kinds? All limes or do you have oranges? We had a huge grapefruit tree, but Vince had it cut down because it was old and diseased. We didn’t eat grapefruits either. We cut down 3 orange trees when we moved in that were spindly, old and diseased. I’d like to get orange trees back again.

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          1. the eternal traveller Avatar
            the eternal traveller

            We have a myer lemon, a navel orange, a lemonade, a mandarine and a Tahitian lime. Which is actually five trees not four! The lemon got a fungus so Glen gave it a good prune. It’s got lots of new heathy growth. Everything else is loaded with fruit.

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  5. anotherday2paradise Avatar
    anotherday2paradise

    You really made my mouth water, Marsha. 😛

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      Tonight we had beautiful cherry pie with an oatmeal crumb crust with some vanilla ice cream. Yum. You can imagine, I’m not losing weight right now. 🙂

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        anotherday2paradise

        Wicked!! 🙂

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        1. tchistorygal Avatar
          tchistorygal

          😉

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  6. Naomi Baltuck Avatar
    Naomi Baltuck

    Sounds wonderful, Marsha! Couldn’t be more perfect for the theme!

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