This is November?

My birthday is in just a couple of days. It is typically a dreary gray day. Sometimes there is sunshine, sometimes mild temperatures, but usually it is gray and cold. My backyard this year is telling a different story.

Here are some of the neat surprises from my backyard stroll this afternoon. I noticed a begonia and an azalea wildly blooming at my mother's just yesterday, so perhaps I shouldn't have been so surprised.

Compare the above to what we more typically see in November here:

I realize that 'Global Warming' is a misnomer, but these things are unusual for November in our neck of the woods (Southern Indiana.) I do worry about the phenomenon of global warming, whether it is misnamed or not...but for today I am enjoying the nicer, pretty side effects.

Topsy Turvy Tomato on the Menu

Topsy Turvy Tomato languishes on the kitchen window sill no longer. Hubs asked me to put it on his ham sandwich the other day. He said it was delicious. He may have eaten the most expensive tomato in culinary history.

Topsy Turvy Revisited - Caprese Salad, Anyone?

Topsy Turvy (see previous post) revisited! I found a micro-mini tomato on the phantom vine that had been torn out of the Topsy-Turvy tomato planter! Tiny little thing. Here he is with the now orangey-red original mini...no larger than a wine cork. The micro-mini is no bigger than a nickel, if that.

Think I'll be making Caprese salad with these little guys anytime soon?