Nathan,
Your warm weather is a little ahead of SC. My Meyer lemons are about
the size of your Euro and bright green. The Black Prince tomatoes I put in
this year are just flowering. I could have got them in the ground earlier,
just got lazy.
Charlie
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 2:06 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes. A tomato. A problem with my leg has kept me off the bicycle for a
> week, so no mountain landscapes, and I do not walk down to the beach in the
> morning either; so I have to make do with I have at home. On Sunday my wife
> and I walked the 600 meters to the outdoor market, and bought, among other
> things, some tomatoes. Tomatoes here in Spain are just a joy. There are
> many different kinds, they taste and smell like tomatoes should, and the
> ones we buy at this market are organic, often grown by the people from whom
> we buy them, picked by virgins by the light of the full moon (well, maybe
> that last bit is over the top). So, last night’s dinner of
> potato-and-cauliflower soup followed by small steaks with tomatoes sliced
> and topped with onion and olive oil had this giant tomato as its
> centrepiece. I joked to my wife that it must have been grown near the
> nuclear power plan in Tarragona. That plant is more than 300 km away, so I
> doubt it, but it was certainly one impressive and photogenic tomato:
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> Here, with a Euro coin (a bit larger than a US quarter) for perspective:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VbMwpLk/A
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> And here with a lemon from our own garden, used to season the soup:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-t5cGzGQ/A
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> Life’s simple pleasures.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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