A Joy From The Garden

A Joy From The Garden:
Yesterday afternoon, while heading back to the
house, I walked past what is left of my vegetable
garden, a couple tomato plants with several very
ripe tomatoes hanging on the vines.
It’s been a while since I ate a whole tomato, while
standing next to the vine it was just picked from.
A small bright red tomato caught my eye. It was
about the size of a tennis ball. I reached through
the vines to pull the small tomato. I took hold of
that little tomato and could feel it was warm from
the afternoon sun.
I could smell the fresh odor of the vine on my hand
as I began to eat the tomato. I had to laugh to my
self, The words from the Guy Clarke song came
rushing through my mind:

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better
Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes
Up in the mornin' out in the garden
Get you a ripe one don't get a hard one
Plant `em in the spring eat `em in the summer
All winter with out `em's a culinary bummer
I forget all about the sweatin' & diggin'
Everytime I go out & pick me a big one
Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes
What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can't buy
That's true love & homegrown tomatoes
You can go out to eat & that's for sure
But it's nothin' a homegrown tomato won't cure
(And it goes on . . . . . . . )

I ate the tomato right down to the little green cap
that held it to the vine. It was soooo gooood, I
picked another and ate that one too.
And that folks, was the high-lite of my day, but you
know, I sleep good at night.
Leroy