Silver and Tomato plants

I received a sixty pound delivery in the mail. When my mail-lady asked about it, I told her the small box held silver dollars. Of course, it didn't.

I am now regretting my joking about that. People will believe the stupidest stuff. The melt value of silver coins is running about $1000 a pound.

An image that caught my attention

Tomatoes are the "Weebles" of the plant world. You can lay them down when you transplant them but they defiantly pop-to attention overnight.

I was walking past the room with the seedling tomatoes when the elegantly luminous "glow" of the vertical stems caught my attention. The backlighting caused the hairs on the stems to illuminate the stems and the dark soil behind them created a stark contrast.

Shortly after Mrs ERJ and I were married, one of Mrs ERJ's friends visited. I was not there at the time, but Mrs ERJ shared that her friend almost broke down into tears when she saw the tomato seedlings growing on the window sill. In fact, her eyes got very, very moist after brushing her hands over them and the distinctive smell of tomato plants hit her nose.

She and her husband had been "homesteaders" and they busted their behinds to make it work. Things happened. She was no longer married. She lived in a nicer house now but...it just wasn't the same. Smells are the most evocative sense. We can filter out sounds and ignore visual backgrounds and endure pain...but smells defy filtering.