Today I went to the garden to harvest some beautiful, red tomatoes. I listened as a singing insect soundscape filled the air. I felt fortunate I could hear any of it at all.
As we age we tend to lose the upper end of the hearing range, which includes the frequencies of many of those singing creatures in the tall grasses. Some insects singers produce sounds that even the best human hearing is incapable of processing.
If you can hear any of this chorus, you are doing something many people can not. Enjoy your special ability!
Each night, rural or urban, listen for the symphony of crickets, katydids, cicadas, and grasshoppers all sounding off joyfully.
Taking my cues from Nature, and learning from the wisdom of the insects, I am formulating a new short-term plan based on the message sent by the singers in our field:
"Enjoy the last warm days of summer,andsing to your heart's content!"
That, plus picking and eating the world's best tomatoes... and cucumbers and carrots, and purple potatoes, and beets, and so on.
We hope you are doing the same in your garden - harvesting and singing, and enjoying Nature's bounty.
Do you know what those yellow things in with the tomatoes are in the picture above? We had never seen them before, until they started showing up unexpectedly in our extension garden. They are funny looking, and very yummy.
Apple cucumbers!
ReplyDeleteI was going to say lemon cucumbers, but I think they may be the same. And delicious.
DeleteLemon Cucumbers!
ReplyDeleteYou are all right. Linda and I are wondering how we made it this far without ever seeing, let alone enjoying, a cucumber other than a long English or field slicer.
ReplyDelete"Consumerism doesn't do diversity" is what we came up with. They stick to what is known and profitable, and never mind interesting, or heirloom, or better taste.
Yes, I was surprised to see you have a lemon cucumber in your garden!I work in produce so I see those every summer, but they're not well-known.
ReplyDeleteLucky you. We feel like we have been missing out. We are saving seeds so we can grow them again.
DeleteApple cucumber as they're known here. Really easy to grow in our region and delicious in summer. What a lovely bounty! :)
ReplyDelete"Easy to grow" - you said the magic words. We love them.
DeleteLemon Cucumbers! The only kind I grow :-)
ReplyDeleteOur first time. We are really enjoying their taste, and it seems like they might store better than regular cukes.
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