First time seeing these melons.
Santa Claus Melons
A Santa Claus Melon will last ‘til Xmas
Tag: produce
Knucklehead Pumpkins
My friends and I walked to Idylwilde Farms yesterday and saw these funny looking pumpkins called knuckleheads.
“Knucklehead pumpkins were created in 2008 in Holland, Michigan by Siegers Seed Company. It took over ten generations of cross-breeding to create the variety covered in warts…”
Do You Call it Autumn or Fall?
What’s Wrong With This Picture? A Guest Blog
Joanne in Florida sent me this photo with the question “what wrong with this picture? “
Still Life after Farmers’ Market
My sister sent me this still life after her trip to Union Square Farmers’ Market, NYC.
‘Tis the Season
’Tis the season. Strawberry season. These look good AND taste wonderful. We all know there are berries that look impressive but disappoint when you bite into them. But not these.
These strawberries captured the taste of summer. Totally!
Unadorned, they were perfection.
(and when I went to look up strawberry I read that “in the botanical world technically they are not considered a true berry” who knew?
“The strawberry is not, from a botanical point of view, a berry. Technically, it is an aggregate accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant’s ovaries but from the receptacle that holds the ovaries.[4] Each apparent “seed” (achene) on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it.”[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry
One Last Green Gallery
Green Grows the Grocer, Ho!
Linea Verde
Linea Verde- Green Market
Bloomfield neighborhood on Liberty Avenue.
Steve and I were on our way to dinner and so that’s why you see the outdoor pumpkin display going both directions.
After dinner we went inside and bought pizzelles. Anise flavored.
I Had to ask about the roots in the first photo-turmeric!
Purple Carrots, Organic
Yellow and orange, too.
Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia PA