Edible Beauty

Did you ever notice that grocery store commercials show heaping displays of fruit and vegetables, wholesome piles of breads, maybe a little meat (always raw), but never big heaps of what people are actually buying? And judging by the people who are generally in line behind me at the grocery store, that would be frozen dinners and Cheetos.

But those ad people know what they're doing. This is certainly much prettier than a bag of Cheetos:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and this beholder says tomatoes are beautiful, dammit.

This is what I harvested from the garden yesterday morning. Harvesting is a daily affair now. What you see up there are tomatoes (duh), green beans, cucumbers, and dill. The cucumbers and dill were put into pickles. The tomatoes and green beans are still hanging around, waiting for their turn to be eaten. Our vegetables are fatalists.

As you can see, we're in The Panic stage of tomato harvest now. I think Monday will kick off The Canning stage. Aaaaand, cue nasty heat and humidity! Yes, just in time for the serious canning, the forecast is calling for much warmer and stickier weather next week. Perfect. Thank you very much, Mama N.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have not yet been out to the garden for this morning's harvest. I suspect more tomatoes are waiting for me.