Apple

This was in our backyard two weeks ago when we were in the middle of a
major cold spurt, with lots of snow. Today there's about three feet of
snow less than there was that day on the ground. That's a fairly
substantial holly under the apple; you can see all the holly today.
And the apple is gone.

At mid-winter, like now, birds often peck at the remaining, softened
apples. I have heard stories -- probably best treated as apochryphal
-- that on warm days old fruit like this contains alcohol and the
birds get visibly drunk. ("Why, yesh, I think I will have another.")
I've never seen that myself.

Fujicolor 100 in the Olympus XA, with the flash firing though in such
bright daylight conditions that the absence of a controlled flash sync
speed made no difference. Cropt and otherwise amended in PSP X5. The
amendments included adding to the natural vignetting of the XA's lens
or its limping shutter.