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To: Road Walker who wrote (322268)	1/23/2007 2:04:22 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574097

It's REALLY entertaining. John McPhee is one of my favorite writers. He can turn the mundane into magic. Many years ago I happened to pick up one book and it turned into a McPhee binge. Poetry disguised as prose. Its funny....oranges are nearly as ubiquitous as the apple. And the fruit is nothing special to look at....its orange and round. Duh! In fact, orange trees are not great looking trees and they have those spikes that can hurt. But the taste of a freshly ripened orange picked right off the tree is to die for.........and to take a nap in an orange grove with the smell of the flowers wafting through the air........its how I imagine heaven. And then when you realize how rather uniquely bountiful they are, producing two crops of fruit in one year, you begin to realize how very special oranges are. If there is a God, the orange tree was one of his special gifts to humanity.