Low Hanging Fruit

My last post was about buzzwords, and so is this one.

However, this one is more about what happens when buzzwords come home to roost. Erin and I have two apple trees and one pear tree in our yard. So far we’ve just been picking up rotting fruit from the ground and feeling about the same for wasting this free fruit.

This pear came from my backard

I recently checked out some online resources about how to know when pears are ripe. Interestingly, you don’t let pears ripen on the tree, you pick them before they are ripe and let them ripen inside. I had our first ripe pear tonight for a snack.

As I was picking pears before dinner I remembered the cliché we used a lot at work, “low hanging fruit.” Having actually picked fruit from a tree I now have a firsthand view of the metaphor.

I still think you should say something like, let’s do the easy and cheap stuff instead of saying “low hanging fruit” but I have a better appreciation of the phrase.