Pomegranate Granada

Bingo. Right on target. Imagine you're responding to the call of nature. One minute you're enjoying the welcome relief, the next you're nursing a sore head and cursing the pomegranate that has just landed on you. That's what happed to el perro the stray. I was watching from my elevated vantage point. Almost fell off I was laughing so much. El perro was not pleased.

Factoid: The pomegranate, la granada in Spanish, is a most interesting fruit, not only for its beauty and the challenge of eating it, but also for its renown as a religious, mythical and metaphorical symbol over the centuries.

The pomegranate was first cultivated in the Middle East. It then spread east to China and west to Africa and the Mediterranean. Pomegranates proliferated in southern Spain and eventually the city of Granada was named for them. When Queen Isabela and King Ferdinand conquered the last stronghold of the Muslims in Granada in 1492, they believed it such a significant milestone that a pomegranate was added to the monarchs’ coat of arms. The pomegranate was also featured on the coat of arms of their daughter, Catherine of Aragón (the first of the six wives to England’s King Henry VIII).