Garden lessons

Arrow started to really understand colors for the first time the summer after he turned 2 years old.  That July, a renegade cherry tomato plant popped up in a flower bed under a pine tree in the backyard.  Of coarse it was more prolific than our intentional tomato plants - Murphy's Law.  Arrow was so excited about picking and eating those perfectly-sized tomato fruits.  It took a while, but he eventually started to leave the green ones on the vine and learned to pick the yellow fruits for eating.  He experimented with the various tastes of the ripe fruit within the whole yellow spectrum and truly seemed to understand that the brightest, yellowest tomatoes were indeed the most flavorful.  

This year will be Arrow's fourth summer garden and although he may not be running around naked in the back yard anymore, he'll still be picking fresh fruits off the vine and telling Nick and I which ones are the best!