No pictures. There should be just the short fruit stalk. No part of the twig or branch should be attached.

Thanks. I thought I had uploaded the photo previously

My pears (Bartlett) snap off easily at almost any time while still hard as a baseball. I'm waiting for then to lighten up in color and to "give" at least a little bit when squeezed. Looking at your pics your pears are a much lighter green than mine so they may be ready to pick before getting overly ripe. It's the best pear season ever here and trees are loaded down so I have the option of cutting one open every couple of days to inspect the interior for signs of ripening.

Thanks. My pears are hard as a rock and this is the first season I've actually had to worry about picking them so I am a total newbie at this. Thanks for your input

By the pictures, do they look ripe? To check/confirm, should I just pic a hand full or so and put them in the refrigerator and see happens?

Freedom:

I grow Bartlett and Summercrisp pears. My bartletts are best when I pick them just as they turn from dark green to lighter green/yellow skin color. Yours in the photo look ripe enough to pick to me.

When picked at this green/ripe stage I can refrigerate them for a month and just take some out every few days to refill our fruit bowl on the table. They ripen up in about 3 days that way.

If I want to can them then I leave them in my bushel basket and put some newspapers over the top to trap the ethylene gas all ripe fruits give off. In 2-4 days the entire contents of my bushel are ripe. Just an FYI if you can pears, you want them a bit firmer than for fresh eating as they would be processed in a water bath. Canning pears that are too ripe result in very soft pears (mushy).

Leaving them on the tree to ripen too much can result in beautiful fruit that is rotten around the core.

I know how you feel. My brother in law and I share the pear crop and he yells at me every year that I am picking the pears too green. I always win that battle when they are just perfect to eat or can up a short time after picking. He picks his later and has to contend with rotten cores.