ripeness

our daughter is visiting home with her boyfriend before she heads back to school in california. she is nineteen and so adult in so many ways and then, in so many other ways, she is not quite adult but is moving surely along the rails that will guide her into a sane and fulfilling adulthood. this tomato is green. but if you look closely, you can see the first blush along its flanks of the deep mature red it will inevitably become.

green tomato

turtle lake, shoreview, minnesota