memories of the french quarter

yellow pepper, a study

Green, sweet bell pepper have 2 times as much vitamin C as oranges; red and yellow bell peppers have 4 times as much.

Green bell peppers are fully developed, but not ripe. All sweet bell peppers start out green, and change color as they ripen. (They also get sweeter). What can be confusing, is that there is also a variety that is green when ripe. The color depends on the specific variety, the most common variety is red when ripe. So...green sweet bell peppers start out green and are green when ripe. Red, yellow, etc. sweet bell peppers start out green and turn red when ripe. What you find in the store are usually either unripe green sweet bell peppers or unripe red ones. ~FoodReference.com

Photo Challenge: Farmer's Market-Street Fair

This summer market is the best one I have visited. In fact, it is such a treat, that it warranted a second visit! This time with cameras in hand, we decided a challenge was in order. We each decided to take a color - I picked green. Yeah...an easy one! So, here we go...

cabbage & carrot tops

a little dilly

under the flower vendor's feet

mmmmm...fresh green beans

beautiful green allyway

in the kitchen store

love these green posies

and a few green buds

an extremely cool green gate

Mr. Green...Shorts? Ok!

and a cutie in a green hoodie

fresh herbs

don't you keep kale in your backpack, too?

I just loved this green tea cup to display loose tea,

and Mr. Foltz in military olive

lookin' up to see old green paint

cut onion greens

takin' it home...

more tempting greens

and a couple of zucchini stars - sweet!

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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. 

 ~Fernando Pessoa

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spu-mo-ni, n. variously flavored and colored ice cream containing candied fruit and nuts.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, 

but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate.

~Thornton Wilder

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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; 

it is the best refreshment on the journey; 

and it is the greatest property.

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - 

not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

~Henri Matisse

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I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. 

If I buy a candy bar at the store, 

oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential. 

~Mitch Hedberg

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Seize the moment. 

 Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. 

 ~Erma Bombeck

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You shall not eat anything leavened; 

in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.

~Exodus 12:20

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Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. 

 ~Don Kardong

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Sometimes, all you need is a little sea breeze.

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary 

so that the necessary may speak.

~Hans Hofmann

kremes

Seize the moment. 

 Remember all those women on the Titanic 

who waved off the dessert cart. 

 ~Erma Bombeck

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For the LORD your G-d is bringing you into a good land, 

a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 

a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, 

a land of olive trees and honey...

~Deuteronomy 8:7-8

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I can think all I want, but it's not going to bake me a cake, 

or make me the universe. 

All I can do is get up and live.

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There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. 

In the back you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.

~Stephen Wright

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character 

by his way of eating jelly beans.

~Ronald Reagan