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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 13/5/2019: a tomato
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 14:18:19 -0500
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Nice!? Reminds me of Marglobe tomatoes that my family raised during the 
1930s.? Tomato sandwiches were a favorite during the Great Depression.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/14/2019 1:06 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Yes. A tomato. A problem with my leg has kept me off the bicycle for a 
> week, so no mountain landscapes, and I do not walk down to the beach in 
> the morning either; so I have to make do with I have at home. On Sunday my 
> wife and I walked the 600 meters to the outdoor market, and bought, among 
> other things, some tomatoes. Tomatoes here in Spain are just a joy. There 
> are many different kinds, they taste and smell like tomatoes should, and 
> the ones we buy at this market are organic, often grown by the people from 
> whom we buy them, picked by virgins by the light of the full moon (well, 
> maybe that last bit is over the top). So, last night?s dinner of 
> potato-and-cauliflower soup followed by small steaks with tomatoes sliced 
> and topped with onion and olive oil had this giant tomato as its 
> centrepiece. I joked to my wife that it must have been grown near the 
> nuclear power plan in Tarragona. That plant is more than 300 km away, so I 
> doubt it, but it was certainly one impressive and photogenic tomato:
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> Here, with a Euro coin (a bit larger than a US quarter) for perspective:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VbMwpLk/A
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> And here with a lemon from our own garden, used to season the soup:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-t5cGzGQ/A
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> Life?s simple pleasures.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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