They may smell like sneakers but the jam sure is good. We had a bunch growing on our property growing up and my brothers and I would pick them for my mom to jam out of. Along with plums and crab apples. About the only fruit that grows there. LOL

I live now about 2 miles from where, at age 14, I first picked what I think of as real fruit off a tree, warmed by the autumn sun and ate it. It was a pear and it was so wondrous to me, I can still taste it.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia