beats my breakfast!
also, i love your photographer’s eye.
:)
happy tuesday!
Deanna July 23rd, 2013 @ 7:45 am
Beautiful
PATR July 23rd, 2013 @ 7:47 am
yum….
Marg July 23rd, 2013 @ 8:29 am
Are you sure they are real, they are so perfectly shaped!
Ok here comes the city girl question, what determines the color of the egg shell? Is the hen or the diet? You are my wikipdeia.
I like brown shelled eggs as the shell is tougher and the yoke more yellow usually but the grocery stores ones are always blood spotted so have gone back to white.
Love this photo…and your life.
My life is more and more spent in our veggie garden, when we are home – we eat from it all year round. That’s pure joy to me.
catherine July 23rd, 2013 @ 10:19 am
Irving Penn ! Very good !
Meg July 23rd, 2013 @ 10:57 am
Shreve,
Do you happen to know what type of chicken lays blue/green eggs? I like to buy from free range farms around here and every once in a while there are those beautiful green/blue eggs in with my bunch!
wright1 July 23rd, 2013 @ 11:21 am
A deceptively simple composition, in terms of color, subjects and arrangement. Your experienced eye makes all those elements work beautifully.
Cut the tomato into small pieces, remove some of the pulpy juice. If you can’t grow homegrown use different types of Heirloom tomato for color and taste. Mix in a bit of crushed garlic, pinch of salt and a good aged balsamic vinegar and oil, mix and eat with egg. Alice Waters put the egg on a toasted piece of bread (gluten free best of course). Can also add a pinch of sugar. Delish.
“only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes (and fresh, fresh pastured eggs!)
Meg, the blue/green eggs come from Araucana or Ameraucana chickens. Though while they’re fun to look at, the breed tends to be less prolific layers than other varieties.
Also Easter Egger chickens lay blue or green eggs. (they’re related to the Araucana I believe).
How the heck do you have red tomatoes already?!! Mine are still green.
Stacey July 23rd, 2013 @ 2:15 pm
This is funny because I did the same thing on Saturday! The black berries and cherry plums are all ripe right now in the Oakland/East Bay hills. I went out the back door and picked enough of each to make a mixed fruit oat crisp for breakfast. It makes a good dessert when heated up with vanilla ice cream too. :) Yay for local foods!
Bruce Evans July 23rd, 2013 @ 5:07 pm
From Chicken Butts!
mlaiuppa July 23rd, 2013 @ 7:56 pm
I see we have gotten over our thing with chickens. They can be handy little cluckers, can’t they?
Nothing like a fresh egg.
I can’t have chickens until my current dog passes away and that will, hopefully, be many years yet. But when I do, Aracaunas would be perfect as I do NOT need prolific layers. Chickens need company and if I have 2-3 chickens I don’t need 2-3 eggs every day. Not even if I freeze them (which you can do if you crack them into a container or bag.)
My city just changed the zoning laws so I can have hens (but no roosters) 2 mini goats and a bee hive. I’ll pass on the bees and goats (for now at least) but I would like to have chickens for the fresh eggs. My garden will be in the front in raised beds so no problem with them eating my little seedlings and shoots. I only wish they would eat the snails but for that I think I’d need ducks or geese. Not going there.
Yvonne July 24th, 2013 @ 10:47 am
What did you do to get such a nice tomato? My cherry tomatoes are doing great but not my heirlooms.
July 23rd, 2013 @ 7:08 am
beats my breakfast!
also, i love your photographer’s eye.
:)
happy tuesday!
July 23rd, 2013 @ 7:45 am
Beautiful
July 23rd, 2013 @ 7:47 am
yum….
July 23rd, 2013 @ 8:29 am
Are you sure they are real, they are so perfectly shaped!
Ok here comes the city girl question, what determines the color of the egg shell? Is the hen or the diet? You are my wikipdeia.
I like brown shelled eggs as the shell is tougher and the yoke more yellow usually but the grocery stores ones are always blood spotted so have gone back to white.
July 23rd, 2013 @ 9:23 am
M ~ the chicken determines the color of the eggshell
July 23rd, 2013 @ 10:12 am
Yummy!
July 23rd, 2013 @ 10:13 am
Love this photo…and your life.
My life is more and more spent in our veggie garden, when we are home – we eat from it all year round. That’s pure joy to me.
July 23rd, 2013 @ 10:19 am
Irving Penn ! Very good !
July 23rd, 2013 @ 10:57 am
Shreve,
Do you happen to know what type of chicken lays blue/green eggs? I like to buy from free range farms around here and every once in a while there are those beautiful green/blue eggs in with my bunch!
July 23rd, 2013 @ 11:21 am
A deceptively simple composition, in terms of color, subjects and arrangement. Your experienced eye makes all those elements work beautifully.
July 23rd, 2013 @ 11:32 am
:)
July 23rd, 2013 @ 11:50 am
Cut the tomato into small pieces, remove some of the pulpy juice. If you can’t grow homegrown use different types of Heirloom tomato for color and taste. Mix in a bit of crushed garlic, pinch of salt and a good aged balsamic vinegar and oil, mix and eat with egg. Alice Waters put the egg on a toasted piece of bread (gluten free best of course). Can also add a pinch of sugar. Delish.
“only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes (and fresh, fresh pastured eggs!)
July 23rd, 2013 @ 1:25 pm
Meg, the blue/green eggs come from Araucana or Ameraucana chickens. Though while they’re fun to look at, the breed tends to be less prolific layers than other varieties.
July 23rd, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
thanks S!
July 23rd, 2013 @ 1:53 pm
Also Easter Egger chickens lay blue or green eggs. (they’re related to the Araucana I believe).
How the heck do you have red tomatoes already?!! Mine are still green.
July 23rd, 2013 @ 2:15 pm
This is funny because I did the same thing on Saturday! The black berries and cherry plums are all ripe right now in the Oakland/East Bay hills. I went out the back door and picked enough of each to make a mixed fruit oat crisp for breakfast. It makes a good dessert when heated up with vanilla ice cream too. :) Yay for local foods!
July 23rd, 2013 @ 5:07 pm
From Chicken Butts!
July 23rd, 2013 @ 7:56 pm
I see we have gotten over our thing with chickens. They can be handy little cluckers, can’t they?
Nothing like a fresh egg.
I can’t have chickens until my current dog passes away and that will, hopefully, be many years yet. But when I do, Aracaunas would be perfect as I do NOT need prolific layers. Chickens need company and if I have 2-3 chickens I don’t need 2-3 eggs every day. Not even if I freeze them (which you can do if you crack them into a container or bag.)
My city just changed the zoning laws so I can have hens (but no roosters) 2 mini goats and a bee hive. I’ll pass on the bees and goats (for now at least) but I would like to have chickens for the fresh eggs. My garden will be in the front in raised beds so no problem with them eating my little seedlings and shoots. I only wish they would eat the snails but for that I think I’d need ducks or geese. Not going there.
July 24th, 2013 @ 10:47 am
What did you do to get such a nice tomato? My cherry tomatoes are doing great but not my heirlooms.
July 24th, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
S & Y ~ the tomatoes seem to be ripening early this year for me – I have no idea why, but I ain’t complainin’! Chicken poop? :)
July 25th, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
I love nature’s packaging of eggs. The shells are so PERFECT!
And of course, What’s better than a freshly picked, rain-fed, sun-kissed tomAHHHHto?
July 28th, 2013 @ 6:35 am
Now I’m hungry! :D
July 29th, 2013 @ 6:45 pm
How is Snake and his foot doing???
August 6th, 2013 @ 9:24 am
Shreve! I LOVE just grazing out of my garden. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen your Blogs. I’ve missed them! I have a lot to catch up on!
August 20th, 2013 @ 11:00 am
My hub would say all u lack is fresh wild mushrooms grown in tn.