Jerry Spots a Wild Plum Tree near the Mount Carmel Cemetary in Bibb County, Alabama

As a small boy in the country, Jerry and his family would always be on the lookout for wild fruit sources, such as berries and fruit trees. A wild plum tree was a great find, and they would eat their fill on the spot and then fill pockets, hats and any other containers they were carrying at the time will all the fruit they could gather.

This wild plum tree had green fruit, but Jerry spotted it nonetheless and remembered how much he enjoyed eating its fruit in the wild as a boy. In those days, if they found a fruit tree, they would make a mental note of its location, and go back later when the fruit was ripe, gather as much as they could carry, and enjoy a bountiful harvest.