July 8, 2011

      Color... at least some colors... mainly tomato colors. I decided not to finish the little cherry tomatoes today when it started to look like rain. It's not important to have them be exactly the same bunch of cherry tomatoes since they all seem to grow in bunches with about the same configuration and I can move any bunch about to get the same angle on each one. 
      The squirrels have been seen carrying whole (though not the largest) tomatoes up into the trees. As I sat on the bench drawing this, I heard the scrabble of tiny toe nails behind me and when I turned there was a young squirrel just out of reaching distance - but surprisingly close - on the trunk of a tree. Did he/she really think it could steal the tomatoes from me? I made a point of placing several tomatoes with bad spots at the base of the tree later as an apology for being stingy with these...

March 7, 2011

   Here is a pencil sketch of four tiny cherry tomatoes (Max's Wild Cherry) and a wee little Indian bitter melon from plants in my son's window. It's going to be a long time before he can subsist on what he's growing... but it has been interesting to see whether tomatoes and bitter melons could be more than annual if not for the winter weather. The bitter melons are succumbing to scale bug, but the wild cherry is attempting to take over the window area - true to it's summer habits.