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A few photos (yes, really!) from El Segundo's Farmer's Market today! (Original Post) CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 OP
That Ruby Red grapefruit looks tasty. Thanks for sharing. Hotler Jan 2025 #1
Thanks so much for having a look and for your comments, my dear Hotler! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #2
Did you take some grapefruit home? Hotler Jan 2025 #13
Delish! elleng Jan 2025 #3
Thanks so much, my dear elleng! Everything looked wonderful today. CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #4
They look like oranges, slightly elongated. Will do my best. elleng Jan 2025 #7
Sounds good! nt CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #8
Oh the elegance Easterncedar Jan 2025 #5
Wow, my dear Easterncedar! Thank you. CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #10
All beautiful, Peggy. FalloutShelter Jan 2025 #6
Thanks very much, my dear FalloutShelter! So glad you like my work. CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #11
Splendid photos, Peggy! Mousetoescamper Jan 2025 #9
I thank you so much, my dear Mousetoescamper! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #12
Those are beautiful photos wendyb-NC Jan 2025 #14
Thanks so much, my dear wendyb-NC! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #15
Beautiful, Peggy SheltieLover Jan 2025 #16
Thanks so much, my dear SheltieLover! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #17
And the yellow pepper... SheltieLover Jan 2025 #18
I thank you for your beautiful sentiments, my dear SheltieLover! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #19
Oh, my ... Romanescu ! eppur_se_muova Jan 2025 #20
Bwah! ... I get it.... electric_blue68 Jan 2025 #22
Sigh, waiting for Spring up here north east NYC. Pretty colors. Nice peppers! electric_blue68 Jan 2025 #21
Thank you so much, my dear electric_blue68! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #25
YW. Ok, then re: micro greens. They do make very nice close ups. electric_blue68 Jan 2025 #28
Thanks so much for all your comments and suggestions, my dear electric_blue68! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #29
Cool. 👍 electric_blue68 Jan 2025 #30
Your photos are so amazing Diamond_Dog Jan 2025 #23
Ah, my dear Diamond_Dog! Thank you so much. CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #24
What are the 2nd & 4th photos of, Peggy? SheltieLover Jan 2025 #26
The second photo is of the micro greens. We used to call them bean sprouts! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2025 #27

Hotler

(13,006 posts)
1. That Ruby Red grapefruit looks tasty. Thanks for sharing.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:53 PM
Jan 2025

Been awhile since I had a Salty Dog.

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
2. Thanks so much for having a look and for your comments, my dear Hotler!
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:57 PM
Jan 2025

How do you make a Salty Dog? I assume with a ruby red grapefruit!

Hotler

(13,006 posts)
13. Did you take some grapefruit home?
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:15 AM
Jan 2025

Salty Dog, Gin or Vodka and grapefruit juice in a highball glass with a salted rim. Dates back to the 1920's.
or, Perro Salado (Tequila Salty Dog); (snip) "This is a Tex-Mex version of the salty dog. If you have access to a sweet Texas red grapefruit, like Ruby-Sweets or Rio Stars, then it's recommended you use it in in this recipe."
https://www.food.com/recipe/perro-salado-tequila-salty-dog-134186

Be well.

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
4. Thanks so much, my dear elleng! Everything looked wonderful today.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:58 PM
Jan 2025

Do share your honeybells! I have no idea what they look like.

elleng

(139,213 posts)
7. They look like oranges, slightly elongated. Will do my best.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:02 AM
Jan 2025

Dad's favorite, so I always think of him at this time of the year.

Hope driver can find my house; it's not easy.

Easterncedar

(4,256 posts)
5. Oh the elegance
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:59 PM
Jan 2025

Every picture is poetry. Nature and the farmers and you - what a team. Thanks for bringing the beauty all the way across the country, Peggy.

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
10. Wow, my dear Easterncedar! Thank you.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:05 AM
Jan 2025

Your words are quite poetic too! I appreciate them very much.

I think you know how I am about sharing!

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
12. I thank you so much, my dear Mousetoescamper!
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:09 AM
Jan 2025

I had the same reaction as yours, when I spotted it today! I couldn't get my camera turned on fast enough!

Unfortunately, my medications keep me from consuming them. Photographing them is almost as good, and it won't make me sick!

wendyb-NC

(4,196 posts)
14. Those are beautiful photos
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:21 AM
Jan 2025

I love the variety of fruit, vegetables and flowers. I love the color of the calla lily. Thank you, Peggy, for posting them. They radiate serenity.

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
15. Thanks so much, my dear wendyb-NC!
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 01:44 AM
Jan 2025

I love getting so much variety from this market. It's great to mix things up! And yes, I feel serene when I see them.

I'd never seen a calla lily that color before. It said "Take my picture!" So I did.

SheltieLover

(66,687 posts)
16. Beautiful, Peggy
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 02:08 AM
Jan 2025

Ty for sharing with us!

That grapefruit looks so yummy! And such lovely flowers!

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
17. Thanks so much, my dear SheltieLover!
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 02:12 AM
Jan 2025

Now, you know how I am about sharing! Sharing is part of my DNA.

I love the grapefruit's color and the flowers are simply amazing.

SheltieLover

(66,687 posts)
18. And the yellow pepper...
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 02:17 AM
Jan 2025

I think of you & your lovely pix each time I was one!

We love you for your sharing nature, Peggy.

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
19. I thank you for your beautiful sentiments, my dear SheltieLover!
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 02:22 AM
Jan 2025

It means a lot to me to be held in such high regard in this group. We truly are a family!

electric_blue68

(20,947 posts)
22. Bwah! ... I get it....
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 06:01 AM
Jan 2025

I'd never heard of this vegetable, till my mom brought one home from our Green Market.
My jaw dropped!

I had already learned about fractals in the mid 1980's. More knowledge boosted by a exhibit on Art & Computers at the IBM building in NYC. They had a museum on the first floor.
Amongst items they had some on fractals, and CGI imagdry in movie making.

But then...
There was this big monitor w 3 items.
"Fly around _____ some city" digital imaging. Ok.
Restoration of an ?Old Masters painting. OK.

Zoom The Mandelbrot Set....
Oh, what's that? So I went and took a look, and spent the next 4 visits "glued" to the monitor displaying this ever unfolding amazing panorama.
Last day I had to "share" it with all the IBM'rs who'd just gotten the ?Scientific American article on ?fractals, AND the Mandelbrot Set; and found out there was a computer generating it right downstairs! And as I mentioned this was the last day of the exhibit.

Thus began a nearly 40 visual love affair! Blessing on the internet, and those who have the abilty for showing so many different zooms!

electric_blue68

(20,947 posts)
21. Sigh, waiting for Spring up here north east NYC. Pretty colors. Nice peppers!
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 05:45 AM
Jan 2025

Are those green, violet micro greens, or tiny flowers? Nice visual texture!

And, oh, the first time my mom brought home a romanesque ?cauliflower ~ wow!
Very fractally!
If you have never zoom(ed) the Mandelbrot Set...
As a highly visual person you must
treat yourself to it's wonders!
(I'm an artist, (former) designer, and photographer)
If you haven't just copy & paste the under lined phrase, but use zoom, not zoomed. 👍
It's still not the most common thing. I sort of stumbled on it back in ?86 at a special IBM exhibit.

If you have, and were amazed I hope we'll share a few sentences extorting it's [imho] astonishing beauty at some point.

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
25. Thank you so much, my dear electric_blue68!
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:33 PM
Jan 2025

I appreciate your very thorough and kind remarks very much.

I have never seen the Mandelbrot Set. That is now on my bucket list!

The green and violet plants are indeed micro greens! I know a vendor who grows and sells them at the market I went to. I love getting close-ups of them!

electric_blue68

(20,947 posts)
28. YW. Ok, then re: micro greens. They do make very nice close ups.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 07:52 PM
Jan 2025

Thinking about your grapefruit pic...
I could imagine a very big blow up on the wall opposite someone's bed...
I think it would have a kind of visual
WAKE UP! effect when someone's eyelids "cracked open". 😄 Like a visual alarm clock.

As for the Mandelbrot Set on your bucket list...it would be the easiest list item ever.
Just put "Zoom The Mandelbrot Set" in You Tube's search engine and there you will be. 👍🙂

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
29. Thanks so much for all your comments and suggestions, my dear electric_blue68!
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:04 PM
Jan 2025

When I have a moment, I will check it all out.

Diamond_Dog

(36,643 posts)
23. Your photos are so amazing
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 01:22 PM
Jan 2025

and so beautiful for us Northerners who have been seeing nothing but white and gray outside!

The detail and clarity is exceptional! TY for sharing these Peggy!

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
24. Ah, my dear Diamond_Dog! Thank you so much.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:29 PM
Jan 2025

We need color, especially when the landscape is dull white and gray.

I was very pleased with the detail and clarity of these; Andy taught me well.

I live to share!

CaliforniaPeggy

(153,547 posts)
27. The second photo is of the micro greens. We used to call them bean sprouts!
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:42 PM
Jan 2025

The fourth photo is of the Romanesco Broccoli. I believe it's related to broccoli and cauliflower.

You're welcome, my dear SheltieLover!

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