Cantaloupe are getting ripe                

Along with all the other things grown in the garden, one of the stars of the garden are the melons.  In this case, cantaloupe.  I don't know about you, but the sweet aroma and flavor of a fresh melon is one of the real pleasures of summer!  So, it was really a thrill to go out to the garden and find one that was ready to slip off the vine.  

Here it is... before we ate it!

The way to tell if cantaloupe are ready... other than looking at them...  is if they "slip" readily off the vine.  What that means is that as the cantaloupe ripens, the stem gradually lets go of the fruit, until... when you pick the fruit up and give a little twist, it just easily separates from the vine.