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Out with the green!

On Friday we were due for our bi-weekly garden visitation.  However, James had to travel to California; so, I drove upstate by myself.  With several How Stuff Works podcasts entertaining my curious mind and with the Taconic wowing my weary eyes with foliage landscapes at every turn, it turned out to be a lovely drive.

With green rapidly fading from the scene, the garden still had a couple of green surprises for me: the last batch of green tomatoes, string beans, the relentless shishito peppers, 2 radishes and even 3 cucumbers! (Which brings the total number of cucumbers I harvested this year to 5. Ok, maybe to 10…)

I spent some time on Friday afternoon cleaning up in the garden. It gets dark around 6 now, so I didn’t have that much time.  The dusk’s sudden advance interrupted my activities; I raised my eyes from wilted tomato plants I was pulling out of the ground and suddenly saw a gleaming beam of red light shooting out from the woods.  It looked almost like the tail of a meteor — but, in fact, it was the tail of a rainbow.  . . . CONTINUE READING → Out with the green!

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Carrot Pride

Generally, I don’t allow myself to feel proud that often – but yesterday I did.  And here is the reason:

In the morning I thought to myself: Wait, I forgot to include carrots in my previous Orange post! What a scandal! But then I unearthed this specimen and was happy about this oversight.  In my opinion, this carrot fully deserves its own post.

This is what you might call a perfect carrot — I immediately thought of Rabbit from Winnie-the-Pooh and his garden — long, straight, thick, and totally blemish-free.  Full of excitement, I ran to James to ask him to take a photo of me with my new best friend.

Which turned into an entire photo shoot.  Have I missed my calling as a carrot model?

James was just as fascinated by the giant orange tuber as I was and insisted that Carrot and I pose for a whole series of silhouettes.

. . . CONTINUE READING → Carrot Pride

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