The simple pleasures can be the best.
I hope that your leg mends soon, Nathan.
Chris
> On 14 May 2019, at 19:06, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes. A tomato. A problem with my leg has kept me off the bicycle for a week,
> so no mountain landscapes, and I do not walk down to the beach in the morning
> either; so I have to make do with I have at home. On Sunday my wife and I
> walked the 600 meters to the outdoor market, and bought, among other things,
> some tomatoes. Tomatoes here in Spain are just a joy. There are many
> different kinds, they taste and smell like tomatoes should, and the ones we
> buy at this market are organic, often grown by the people from whom we buy
> them, picked by virgins by the light of the full moon (well, maybe that last
> bit is over the top). So, last night’s dinner of potato-and-cauliflower soup
> followed by small steaks with tomatoes sliced and topped with onion and olive
> oil had this giant tomato as its centrepiece. I joked to my wife that it must
> have been grown near the nuclear power plan in Tarragona. That plant is more
> than 300 km away, so I doubt it, but it was certainly one impressive and
> photogenic tomato:
>
> Here, with a Euro coin (a bit larger than a US quarter) for perspective:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VbMwpLk/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VbMwpLk/A>
>
> And here with a lemon from our own garden, used to season the soup:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-t5cGzGQ/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-t5cGzGQ/A>
>
> Life’s simple pleasures.
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