Bananas!

Mom has been drying banana slices to preserve this year's bumper crop. There are at least seven bunches on the trees, in various stages of development. The one beside Rachel and Ginger is hanging in the upstairs bedroom, ripening.
The flower blooms below the bunch. Mom says bananas don't grow from seeds anymore; they've been under cultivation for too long, or something like that. The new leaves aren't segmented or serrated--it's the wind that gives them their characteristic ragged look. Since the banana trees have been such a success, Mom wants to grow plantains now.