Mountain mandarins are here! A friend brought me a 5 pound bag yesterday, the first of the season. There is nothing like them and because I live so close to the heart of mountain mandarin country, I can feast on them throughout their short season. The best part about taking this photograph is that because I had to try lots of different layouts to find one that best showed off this precious and luscious fruit, each time I changed the composition, I just had to eat the segments that got moved off the set. I had to eat 4, or was it 5? mandarins during this shoot. I’m glad they’re what I call “healthy candy!”