Last Tuesday, Anne and I took the kids to a “mikan” grove. “Mikan” is the Japanese word for mandarin orange. It is also commonly called a “satsuma”. Trivia: Did you know that the towns of Satsuma, Texas, Satsuma, Alabama, Satsuma, Florida and Satsuma, Louisiana were named after this fruit? Mrs. Itoh came along with us and everybody just had a great time as you will soon see. The girls must have eaten at least 20 oranges. You can eat all the oranges you want for a measly 3 bucks! It was a beautiful day for such an outing. Okay, time for the pictures…
Riz these are beautiful photographs. What a lovely family. I am also familiar with satsumas from England. At Christmas we would have a ” stocking” which was my dad’s big wooly sock with a satsuma in the toe. It was a true treat as we did not get them at any other time of the year. And yes they were brought by ‘Father Christmas”!