Strawberry Patch

Today was my wife's last day of college.  Within just a few months, she will be going to grad school.  In Ireland.  I get to go with her.  I thought this was deserving of a gift of sorts.  We have been talking about getting a plot of land to grow some fruits and vegetables on for the summer.  I figured, in case we don't get one, we should have something regardless.  So I purchased some strawberry plants.  As well as a little makeshift planter.  And I gave it to her.  She was quite pleased.

From Within The Strawberry Patch

Sadly there are only two strawberry plants.  Few things look more awesome than a row of strawberry plants disappearing into the distance.  Never ending strawberry shortcake.  Glorious.

Local Produce All The Way

I got my car inspected today.  While paying, I added a bunch of home grown asparagus to my bill.  Thus is the awesome nature of the area I live in...Lancaster County.  They had asparagus on the counter, in a bucket, for 1.50...how could I refuse?  I couldn't.
The fact that a car shop had some of their own vegetables for sale with their vehicle services made me think that my favorite farm stand might be open.  It was.  I picked up some cabbage and strawberry rhubarb jam and my wife got an apple.  It is a wonderful little stand and I rejoice in the fact that it is open.  I will be giving them more business than I give anyone else for the next five months.

Wanted: Newspapers

This picture is more of a documentary shot.  It isn't supposed to be anything special,  just an image that marks the first day that I got to go to my favorite produce stand in 2011.

Skids and Spokes

I have a hard time not photographing bikes, regardless of their location.  But a bike surrounded by skids of produce, now that is pretty awesome.  Id like to imagine there is a forklift attachment for a bicycle and that is the method that is used to move produce around the stand.

Pepper Grayscale Study

Three delicious sweet peppers.  A yellow, an orange, and a red.
Once these three peppers were converted to the grayscale, where they fall on the scale becomes visible.  The red, the one all the way to the left is much farther from the orange (middle) then the orange is from the yellow (right).  Also, I would have thought that yellow would have been closer to absolute white than orange is.  Unless my photograph didn't convert properly, or the lighting ruined something, I was wrong, and orange is actually closer.

Pepper Grayscale Study
I wonder if we would be as inclined to eat fruits and vegetables if they were just shades of gray.  

Chopped, Sliced, Diced

A new manifestation of my "Produce Roll Call" series has begun.  This series will feature sections of vegetables and fruit.  I'm yet to decide if each photo will have the full piece of produce in it, just cut up in some way, but today's does.

Avocado Cross-Section TTV

This avocado went directly from the photo shoot onto some vegan rice and mushroom burgers.  

Tomatillo Through the Viewfinder

I'm continuing with my produce through the viewfinder series today.  I found a nice tomatillo and thought it would work well with yesterday's purple garlic.  My wife said that if this series continues to look the way these last two shots are looking, we should frame and hang them in the kitchen.  I suppose we shall see how the following photos turn out.  I already have the produce for the third shot, delicious ginger.  I will need to do at least four photos to make the series look good on a wall together...let me know if you have a good idea for the fourth shot.

Tomatillo

Yesterday's purple garlic and today's tomatillo.  I see fantastic salsa verde in my future.