We have a fig tree, and this time of year it cranks out the figs. If you’ve never had a fresh fig, you should find one. They’re really delicious.
They always remind me of Narnia.
There’s a scene in The Magician’s Nephew where Aslan has just created the world, and things are growing at a crazy pace. Somebody dropped a piece of a lamp, and a fully functional lamp post grew from it.
Digory and Polly are sent on a quest across this new land, but they don’t have any food. All they have in their pockets are some toffees, so — thinking the creation process might still be in action — they plant the toffees. In the morning there’s a tree that has fruits that taste like a fresh fruit version of the toffee.
The first time I ate a fresh fig reminded me of that. It was as if someone planted a fig newton in Narnia and a tree grew that produced these fruits.