Morning Fruit

Larry and I start each morning with a bowl of fresh seasonal organic fruit. It gives us vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and it tastes good.

At the moment we are eating blueberries from our garden and cantaloupe and strawberries from the farmers market.

Happiness in a bowl. What a great way to start the day.

Stone fruit

The plums, nectarines and peaches are just beautiful this year. I gathered a few at the market, along with some ripening avocados.

They make a beautiful still life in the kitchen.

I make sure to check through them each day for ripeness. Ripe fruit is either eaten immediately or goes in the fridge until we're ready for it.

Checking them every day ensures that I catch any softening fruit before it starts to go off.

And it gives me an opportunity to arrange a different work of art every day.

Winter Fruit

Winter fruit is extra high in Vitamin C, very useful in cold and flu season.

We juice oranges on Sundays, and take tangerines and apples in our lunch bags.

Our bowls of morning fruit are full of the excellent grapefruit we get from Jorge at the Hollywood Farmers Market - both pink and white. I add color with pomegranate seeds, and an extra zip with kumquats from the dwarf meiwa tree mum gave me for Christmas. The fruit is a little larger than a regular kumquat, and a little sweeter.

All these vitamins help us feel stronger during this virus and bacteria laden season. And eating the fresh fruit is much more fun than swallowing a vitamin pill.

Isn't it cute? This is the dwarf meiwa kumkuat we got at Bellefontaine Nursery in Pasadena. It was tough to come home with only one citrus tree - talk about a place of temptation!

Summer fruit

We have been loving our morning fruit.

Organic melons, peaches, plums and grapes.

Is there anything more beautiful to start the day with?