"The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. 'I am not alone and unacknowledged.' They nod to me and I to them." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Asparagus, the delightfully tall and slender stalks with a modest green complexion. Squash, rosy and round in the middle, filled with pure harvest sunshine. Cauliflower, the queen anne's lace transformed to a forest architecture, pure and white. Inch by inch, this year's garden is realizing its potential, whether it come by taste, or for the more adventurous, by toss...


Garrison Keillor, radio notable (Prairie Home Companion), writer and storyteller shares this rich moment in his book Lake Wobegon Days...


What a target! She was seventeen, a girl with big hips, and bending over, she looked like the side of a barn. I picked up a tomato so big it sat on the ground. It looked like it had sat there for a week. The underside was brown. Small white worms lived in it. It was very juicy. I had to handle it carefully to keep from spilling it on myself. I stood up and took aim, and went into the wind-up, when my mother at the kitchen window called my name in a sharp voice. I had to decide quickly. I decided.


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