The most beautiful thing I've ever eaten

So, I just wanted to share with y'all the most beautiful thing I have ever eaten. I purchased it from a local farmer, and friend, Doug Jones. He runs a small organic farm on the outskirts of town and sells his produce to our local co-op and the farmers market. It's called a "fractal" cauliflower. It has such a vibrant taste too (for a cauliflower). I have never seen anything like it in my life. I guess it's a speciality of his and they are very finicky to grow.

If you look closely you can see that each peak is a spiral. What's harder to see in the photo is that each bump that forms the spiral also has spirals on it, and those have spirals. In fact, Farmer Doug (as we like to call him) has taken a magnifying glass and seen that there are actually even smaller spirals than what we can see with the naked eye. It's an amazing thing.

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Snow? What?

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Originally uploaded by aegdorf83.

So, last thursday we got snow. I woke up in the middle of the night at about 3am (as I always do) and I saw the cute little flakes gently floating down to the ground. It looked almost like God had dandruff. School was cancelled for the day to the delightment of all young children. Many businesses were also closed. All this scrolled across the bottom of the TV screen as we sipped our morning tea. There was less than an inch of slushy stuff on the ground, and people were slip sliding everywhere in their cars. There were over 150 reported accidents, people in the ditch, hitting street lights and power lines....I had visions of what it would be like for me to go out and drive in this and everybody else in the world was stuffed up in their home because they didn't own a shovel to scoop their driveways. I had visions of the apocolypse and Joseph and I were the only ones left. The roads were ours, no traffic ever. A beautiful dusting of white covered rooftops and lawns. It's all a dream.....The gardens here are quite confused. We have flowering plants. Our lettuce continued to grow until we a few nights of frost in a row. The grass is green and growing. People have been mowing their lawns in January. It was upper 60's and low 70's all the week before. It's such a rollercoaster here. I'm glad I brought back my sweaters.