A Pair of Pears

Here's my latest post to the sketchbook challenge.  A pair of pears to remind me how I highly prize fresh  fruit in winter.  When my mother was a little girl in the western NC mountains in the first decade of the 1900s, Santa Claus would leave one orange in the stocking of each child in her family, and it was a huge treat because they couldn't go to a store and buy fresh fruit the way that we do 100 years later.

This sketch was done with a child's set of water soluble wax pastels on a piece of watercolor paper.
I ate one of the 'models' for this sketch for lunch today. Delicious.