The Last of the Season’s Tomato Harvest
You get a pang when you pick the last of the season’s tomatoes (well we picked them just before that first freezing night — was it last week?). They languished all this time in two bags. I sorted them out finally today, after removing all the dried out vines. (And what a mess they were!)
Even now, so late in the season, they’re so green and red — like jewels, like fat, green Peridots, and plump Oxblood Corals, and rich red-orange Chalcedonies, and Fire Opals, and Carnelians.
Gosh, I’m waxing gemmy!
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