“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.”

― E. Lockhart

I stand among the vegetables at our local food co-op watching the young man place these beautiful tomatoes in cardboard baskets. He offers me a bright red one to taste and I slide it into my month and taste summer. I reach for a paper bag and ask him to slip a couple baskets inside. He empties two very full baskets into the bag and hands me two baskets to place them in once I get home.

I can’t resist taking their picture.