papyrus

when i first pulled up this image, i thought, “carrot paper,”  but if it is anything like paper, then it is technically a papyrus, not a paper, because it is made from slices of plant material, and not from pulp. let me be clear. i’m not mad at the possibility that i may have made carrot papyrus today, instead of carrot paper. i hope you, on your end, will not be mad if you see more examples of vegetable papyrus in the coming days. i’m a little bit smitten.

carrot

my favorite time of the year

you can have santa claus. i’ll take tomato season. the most wonderful time of the year.

tomatoes

never gets old

i’m a latecomer to smoke bush. i’m sure it has been around forever, but it was only brought to my attention a couple of years ago. and as i have mentioned, it was love at first sight. now i know where every smoke bush is within a 10-mile radius of my home. like its cousin sumac, it changes almost daily from now through october. but it’s in its prettiest phase right now. pale pink and aubergine.i know the exact coordinates of this one. i’m not telling.

smoke bush in august

zaftig

as the daughter of a romanian immigrant, i was used to hearing a smattering of foreign words thrown into the chatter at holidays and family gatherings. we ate colac, egg bread, and sarma, stuffed cabbage rolls, and disappointed grandmothers proclaimed, “you hurt me to my heart.” as a result, i have often felt the most comfortable among the families of my jewish friends, who kvell and kvetch, and who would declare this full-figured, womanly, succulent dahlia as admirably zaftig.

giant dahlia

the unbearable beauty of radishes

twenty images into this fruit and vegetable series, it was an unexpected but delightful surprise to discover that the lowly radish is capable of transporting me with its modest and asymmetrical beauty.

radish