I realized you can't see my facebook page unless you're a friend. Sorry about that!

Try this instead: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23056

I just read a poem by Arther Sze, the poet laureate of Santa Fe. Here is a line from it.

"I see how picking spinach in a field
blossoms the picker, how a thoughtless act
shears a wing."

You can read the whole poem on my facebook page Wendy.Heller.50.

I don't know why my sentence was cut off on that last post, but it was supposed to say, easily used in winter!

Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. Here is a simple thing to do, if you have a roaster oven on your back porch or terrace, or if you have air conditioning. Cut up a bunch of fresh tomatoes, Romas would be great. Put them in a baking dish, drizzle with olive oil, kosher sea salt, or any kind of salt, throw in a few whole garlic cloves, and roast for a couple of hours. Good on egg dishes, toasted crusty bread, pasta, or as a base for salsa or tomato sauce.

MJ has been blanching tomatoes, peeling them, and putting them into a bag and freezing them. Faster than canning but easily used i