I love it when home-grown vegetables turn out this oddly coloured, one more bit of proof that nature is the real artist. Sometimes she plays with geometric forms, sometimes with lines, often in pure abstraction. Whatever the mode, the result is magical and one of a kind.
Take our peppers: yellow-green and blazing red, coloured in alternating halves. They began pale green and we were about to pick them when a blush appeared. So we left them, watered them, waited, and watched them grow redder and more sharply contrasted. Judging by the ratio, are these green peppers or red ones?
Eventually it was time to pick them. Our neighbour said, “Take them off before they tire the plant,” so we listened. Now the table holds crisp, luscious, juicy, wildly abstract peppers from the garden alongside a crowd of little tomatoes in the same shades… Apparently nature did not wash her brush between jobs.
