Sweetfern, Comptonia peregrina, is neither sweet nor a fern. It looks like something the dinosaurs would have walked through, releasing the warmest, spiciest aromas of imagination.
Thank you so much, Chris! I've now painted the other two pears as well. This could almost be the pomegranate painting fixation all over again, but the pears won't last as long ;)
Yum! All good things. Seeing those pears reminded me that I'm still kicking myself that we didn't get any last fall when they were at their best. Now the ones in the stores taste like cardboard.
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Ah fresh foods! How I am looking forward to the garden.
ReplyDeleteThis was my second box of organic fruit and veg from Misfits Market :)
DeleteThose pears are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAren't they? I'm going to have to eat that one today because it has ripened fully, but I may still have time to draw the other two ;)
DeleteThat looks so good right now.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm finding the aroma of a ripening pear as wonderful as flowers :)
DeleteThat looks so delicious! I love pears but they keep selling out at our shopping place.
ReplyDeleteI just harvested my first stuff from the greenhouse. Arugula!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! There's just something wonderful about planting and raising and harvesting...and eating!...your own, homegrown food :)
DeleteThat pear illustration is as luscious as the real one. You caught that ineffable pear skin so well - color, texture, sheen. It makes my mouth water.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Chris from Boise
PS KB: Arugula amidst your heaps of snow - a lovely mental picture! Thank goodness for greenhouses.
Cheers,
Chris from Boise
Thank you so much, Chris! I've now painted the other two pears as well. This could almost be the pomegranate painting fixation all over again, but the pears won't last as long ;)
DeleteNice watercolor.
ReplyDeleteThank you :)
DeleteYum! All good things. Seeing those pears reminded me that I'm still kicking myself that we didn't get any last fall when they were at their best. Now the ones in the stores taste like cardboard.
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