Ripening

The berries were ripening almost as fast as we could gather them.

This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

Nor less Andromache, sore grieved to part, / rich raiment fetches, wrought with golden thread, / and Phrygian scarf, and still with bounteous heart / loads him with broideries. "Take these", she said, / "sole image of Astyanax now dead. / Thy kin's last gifts, my handiwork, to show / how Hector's widow loved the son she bred. / Such eyes had he, such very looks as thou, / such hands, and oh! like thine his age were ripening now!"

These fruits, they are over ripening so let's eat them quickly.

The rice is ripening. What type of rice is this?

These strawberry tree fruits are ripening.

In India maize is a summer crop, ripening in the autumn, when the ears or cobs are picked off the stalks.

The fruit is ripening on the fruit tree.

The strawberries are ripening.

Across a locked-down France, strawberries, lettuce and asparagus are ripening, near-ready for picking. Other plants are poking through the warming soil, thanks to rising temperatures and generous sunshine. But the tens of thousands of Polish, Romanian and Moroccan workers who normally flood in for spring harvest are nowhere in sight.