look so beautiful and delicious!
Swiss Chard & Carrots ~ Spring 2015
Tomatoes ~ Summer 2013
Gourds ~ Fall 2008
Martha's exhortation to "Taste the rainbow" reminds me of a magical children's poetry book that I used to love reading to Ben and Sam:
Hailstones and Halibut Bones
poems by Mary O'Neill
illustrations by John Wallner (see also Alexandra Wallner)
"Like acrobats on a high trapeze
The Colors pose and bend their knees
Twist and turn and leap and blend
Into shapes and feelings without end . . .
Time is purple
Just before night
When most people
Turn on the light . . .
the purple sound
Is the loveliest thing
It's a violet opening
In the spring. . . .
Gold is the sunshine
Light and thin
Warm as a muffin
On your skin. . . .
Black is charcoal
And patio grill . . .
licorice
And patent leather shoes . . .
Brown is the color of a country road . . .
Brown is cinnamon
And morning toast . . .
if you listen
You can hear blue
In wind over water
And wherever flax blooms . . .
Gray is the color of . . .
a falling - apart house . . .
The bubbling of oatmeal mush.
Tiredness and oysters . . .
White is marshmallow
And vanilla ice cream
And the part you can't remember
In a dream. . . .
Orange is a happy day
Saying good - by
In a sunset that
Shocks the sky. . . .
It's bittersweet
And marigold . . . an orange
Also a mango . . .
Red is a brick and
A rubber band. . . .
Pink is a cooked shrimp
And a canterbury bell. . . .
Pink is the beautiful
Little sister of red . . .
Green is lettuce
And sometimes the sea. . . .
Under a grape arbor
Air is green
With sprinkles of sunlight
In between. . . .
Yellow is the color of the sun
The feeling of fun
The yolk of an egg . . .
And a daffodil.
Yellow's sweet corn
Ripe oats . . .
Summer squash and
Chinese silk . . .
And you and you and I
Know well
Each has a taste
And each has a smell
And each has a wonderful story to tell . . ."
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