Just as I bemoaned the absent Great Swallowtail and Hummingbird Hawkmoth, Mary D arrived and gave me a tour of her edibles: unbelievably enthusiastic beets, purple hull peas, plumping cantaloupes, green peppers, tomatoes of several varieties, squash, Chinese noodle beans, and Christmas lima beans.
She gifted me with several delights, which I consumed as supper, among which starred the Christmas limas (or fagioli del papa or the Pope's beans). Like their other nickname, chestnut beans, their nuttiness matches their speckled beauty.
Oh, Christmas in July!
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