One of the advantages to living on the south side of Houston is that I’m firmly in Zone 9. For you poor people who live north of here, that means I get to garden pretty much all year around.
I haven’t been in my garden this year until this past weekend. After taken a trip to visit the family in Iowa, I came down with a cold and then R.’s mom got a cold and didn’t want anyone around her. Then last weekend, when I had a three day weekend, it rained. So while the plans were to start working on the garden a couple of weekends ago, it just didn’t happen. But that’s okay. I spent a good 3.5 hours Saturday afternoon weeding, harvesting broccoli and cabbage and planting peas (shelling peas YUM!!!!) My reward for all that hard work was an orange straight off of Mrs. B’s juice orange tree. Juice oranges have a rind that’s a little tougher than oranges like Clemintines. I ended up cleaning off the garden knife and chopping the orange into quarters on a fence post.
I ended up grabbing my camera and taking some pictures of said orange when I realized how great the light was from the sunshine.
I love this picture. You can see the juiciness of orange. And orange color against the background just pop and reminds me of sunshine. We need more sunshine. It’s been a rainy dreary day here today.
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That is a nice picture. I love nature. I don’t get to enjoy it as much as I’d like, but when I see things like this, it gives me such an appreciation to live in such a beautiful world. I can’t wait for the rain to stop either. It’s starting to affect my mood. Thanks for sharing, Head Pickle.
OMG I LOVE THIS PICTURE! It encapsulates why I love eating an orange — it’s as though the orange tree captures the sunshine and transformed it into this beautiful, delicious way to actually eat the sun … which I guess when you think about it is exactly what happened.
Now I would like an orange. And a garden. And sunshine. Someday ….