Sunday, August 12, 2012

More gifts from a neighbor in midsummer Japan...

Had not been walking the hills recently...
Reason is, there are tons of chores to do in the potager during the weekends, and like all things, it is a matter of priority...
Anyway, thought I would take a break from the potager and accompany my sweeto haato in her regular walk last Saturday morning...
Before long, we met a neighbor (different from the one in the previous post) who was visiting another neighbor in the adjacent hamlet...
After some brief niceties, we resumed our walk...
And oops, bumped into each other again a few minutes later as she was returning home on her bicycle...
Why not take home some tomatoes? She offered...
It was not for us to decline a good offer...
Pretty soon, we were standing at her vegetable garden, watching her harvesting the tomatoes...
Would you like some green peppers too? My husband dislikes eating them and told me not to cook any dish with peppers... she said...
And how about some pumpkins? They are a bit small but they taste very sweet...
Oh, there's okra too... here, take some...
Hmm... what can I say except that it is so nice to reside in this hamlet amongst such generous neighbors...
And my, their vegetables are of a different class compared to the 'mini-mini' ones that I could only grow at my potager...