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The cucumbers are starting to sprout up in my seed tray. It won't be long until these guys are planted.
This is a cucumber from our garden last summer. It sat in our kitchen all year, never rotting, only becoming a little shrunken. I sliced it open and planted it, now we have a new plant.
On triangles of fresh bread, with a little mayonnaise, freshly ground salt & pepper - topped with chives.
It reminds me of the Divine Trinity.
God is in all around us.
On a side note, Cucumber is a far more boring fruit than Kiwi....
I have to say, that paste sure makes this easy--wash, chop, and salt your cucumbers, then rinse, mix with the paste and some sliced scallions.
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We had a good soaking rain the day before this photograph was taken. The last time I saw this waterfall earlier in the summer it was a trickle. It was flowing great after the storm, with the veil breaking up into three parts. You can only get this view of the waterfall after a good storm, so I was lucky in that respect.
The downside of this vantage point is there is almost a constant mist coming off of the falls flowing directly over the camera equipment, so I spent more time cleaning off the lens than shooting. Add to that, it was about 24 degrees out. It was a chilly walk back to the car after sitting in a mist for a couple of hours.
The falls are located in Ohiopyle State Park in Western Pennsylvania.
Diaphania indica
The pom ball tail-end of this *moth acts as a decoy. It is twirled around to confuse potential predators.
1 cup cucumber slices
1/4 cup rice vinegar
3 tbsp EVOO
3 tsp agave syrup
1/4 tsp chili pepper flakes
Mix dressing in bottle and pour over cukes- serve cold.
Feeds 2-4
One day, this idea just came to me. So I put the cucumber on my dining table and took this macro. The blue is my wall and the tinge of brown is the table. But I love how it all works together. Everyone who has seen this has told me they love it, so I'm glad I took it.
Sea cucumbers are generally scavengers, feeding on debris in the benthic zone of the ocean. The diet of most cucumbers consists of plankton and decaying organic matter found in the sea. Some sea cucumbers position themselves in currents and catch food that flows by with their open tentacles. They also sift through the bottom sediments using their tentacles.
We eat cucumbers very quickly, so I planted quite a few in our little plot and I will plant more later.
Sea cucumbers are deliciously gross. They're the slug of the ocean, but they do wonders for the reef, cleaning up excess algae that grows on the coral and would otherwise smother it. They also make excellent subjects, as they don't move particularly fast. You can see colonies of the Christmas Tree Worms in the background.
This lovely cucumber was the first thing we've harvested out of our garden this year. It made a delightful tomato and cucumber salad, though the tomato was store-bought. We have lots of green tomatoes on the vines, but none ripe yet. Soon though!