Here’s how things go…. from “to” to “fro”…..

I just shot this door which reminded me of Dr. Seuss… for some reason.  Maybe the colors, I don’t know.  Well looky.  This afternoon, I received a birthday card from some friends… a “Dr. Seuss” kind of birthday card.  Yeah. Hang on to your boots and your suits.  There was a lot of rhyming in that card, like ‘you’ and ‘do’… ‘proud’ and ‘loud’…  ‘hat’ and ‘fat’….  I loved that card, even though my very good friends said my head was fat, too fat for a hat.  Happy Birthday Fat Head.

But none-the-less, I am a hearty fan of Dr. Seuss.  Yes, this I can tell you.  When I was younger, I loved those rhymes… One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish … or…. I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I Am.   Then…. a little older…. I read the “Sneeches, and Other Stories”.  If you don’t know it, I highly recommend it.  (The Sneeches at Amazon)

But Dr. Seuss was wise, wise, wise.  Wiser than a stack of pies.

Here are a few of Dr. Seuss’ quotes.

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good…”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is You-er than You.”

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

So there you have it.  I am going to bed.

I’m going to bed with my fat head.

There’s a lot to be said for a good tomato.  And soon, it will be that time again… for that fresh-out-of-the-garden, plump and juicy, crazy-go-nuts tomato.  Smarter people than me have even talked about the appeal…

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”
– Lewis Grizzard

On the other hand, a bad tomato can send you reeling.  It will ruin your entire salad, right down to the cucumber.  You know the kind… pale and tasteless with that incomparable texture… mealy or something.  Enough to make the Jolly Green Giant cry….

But not a Veg.  The tomato is a fruit you know.  It was first born in South America, and was spread around the world following the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

They can be social….
Why did the tomato go out with a prune?
Because he couldn’t find a date!

Sometimes problematic…..
How do you fix a broken tomato?
Tomato paste!

Very refined…
Why did Mrs. Tomato turn red?
She saw Mr. Green Pea!

…and modest….
Why Did The Tomato Blush?
Because he saw the salad dressing.

So there you have it.  The versatile tomato.  You say toe-MAY-toe…  I say toe-MOTT-toe….

Coming soon…. to a garden near you.