After about 10 minutes of trying to come up with a catchy title for this blog post, I ended up with “Tomatoes!”. That’s the only one that captured my excitement well enough for just having picked and eaten our first tomatoes of the season within the last week. Oh how I’ve missed that taste!
I am trying to write another post from my phone, outside here as a field correspondent for Blandria’s Backyard Garden, but it’s 102 degrees according to the thermometer, and I am sweating already, so we’ll make this quick with a few snapshots of the tomatoes.
Pictured here: Brandywine (the largest), Cherokee Purple (the deep red one), Yellow Pear (the ones that are yellow and look like pears), and one mistake pulled off by accident.
Butterball on his evening duty.
Posted by hilstreet on May 25, 2011 at 9:39 pm
I laughed out loud at the first sentence of this post.
And, they look delicious!
Posted by Kathy on May 26, 2011 at 9:22 am
I wish I was there to eat that cherokee purple and pet that cat. Beautiful photos too!
Posted by Pat on May 27, 2011 at 10:31 am
Congratulations! The first tomatoes are always exciting, harbingers of delicious things to come. Butterball appears to have slimmed down some, too.
Posted by Andria on May 27, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Pat, you are right! Butterball is quite the slim cat these days. I know he can tell that he’s lost weight too, with the way he struts around the backyard now.
Posted by emiliekopp on June 1, 2011 at 9:55 am
Those look so beautiful. I had no idea tomatoes could look so colorful.