our fig: the first year

In spring 2009 we bought a brown turkey fig tree to grow in a pot on our second-floor balcony.

In May, our small tree had been home on our porch for a month or two. One of our mothers was very sick, and the fig's progress became a fond topic during hospital visits.

By August the tree cast a distinctive silhouette. At night, owing to streetlights, the silhouette was cast on our neighbor's house.
August 2009: a fig on the verge of ripening.