ISN'T THIS A gorgeous pepper? Last summer when I plucked it off of my garden......um, yes, my garden consists of one pepper plant...I was so proud of it that I felt it was worthy of its own portrait.

Now, this year, in these lush, fruitful days of summer, I hope I can manage to be patient and not harvest all of the beautiful green peppers that hang so bounteously from my pepper plant until the sun eventually puts its blessing on them and brings them to a glorious shade of crimson. Or would it be scarlet. At any rate, they turn red. Sigh. It's such a long wait. I've decided to expand my garden next year. I'm going to plant at least two pepper plants.


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