Jul 102010
This is a rain-spangled red cabbage. I took this photo yesterday at dusk.
What does it mean?
Nothing.
(Well, other than that we may be making more coleslaw or sauerkraut in the next few days.)
It doesn’t always have to mean something. Three focus posts in a row make me start to feel like everything must have deep symbolism or guidance for my life. But nope. Sometimes it’s just a ripening cabbage.
Honestly, I’m just glad to be moving on to other areas of interest here.
Can you tell I get bored easily?
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You make even a ripening cabbage beautiful, Meredith. And it makes me long for some pickled red cabbage.
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Food growing, I think, is always beautiful. Maybe that feeling translates through the lens?
Thanks for the compliment, Talon. Hope you get to eat some pickled red cabbage soon!
They make sauerkraut from red cabbage??
Okay this will be a hard one. Let me think.
This is the monsters eye
A photo was snapped
Before it upped and skied
Where could it have went
No one to this day knows
But there was a sauerkraut stench
This thing if it’s still alive or dead
Just remember I named it first
I’m the one that called it, big eye red
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You can make it from red or green or savoy cabbage, Ellis. The last batch we had was from red and was very, very good!
I can kinda see the monster’s eye, if I tilt my head just right…
What does it say about me that I see a gaping maw?
Nice pic though
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LOL, Merrilee, don’t let a psychoanalyst anywhere near that interpretation!
I love that.
Sometimes a cabbage is just a cabbage. I think I’m inspired to make a t-shirt…:D
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Kyna, that would be a cool tee. You’re so creative!
It’s a good looking cabbage though. In my garden many things like to nibble on cabbages before we do. Yours looks quite perfect, for a cabbage
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I had to smile ruefully at this comment, Clare. Why do you think the focus is in so tight on the heading part of the plant? The outer leaves are chewed up at this time of the year, no longer such a pretty sight. You know we pursue a no-spray-unless-absolutely-necessary policy, and those outer wrapper leaves are not essential.
We’re such hippies we even don’t mind it if there’s a little nibble taken out of an inner leaf. It’s good to share our food with others.
I do love cabbage – I just had some for lunch at the Rainbow Grocery food bar. Yum. Yours is dandy looking and I like it that you don’t mind sharing with your furry friends.
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Oh, Rainbow Grocery! I’m so envious, Lynn. I hope you had your favorite Miso dressing.
Actually, what it means is this…
Just kidding.
That cabbage looks like a big, alien eye with a red, triangular iris. Freaky, man, just freaky! Gonna go and watch Day of the Triffids now…
LOL. Eyes and maws, aliens and monsters — maybe because I’ve seen in real life that it’s a cabbage, I can only see “cabbage” when I look at that picture. Although the triangular iris, I can at least get where you’re coming from.
At least I know my readers are creatives and visionaries!
You’re right, it doesn’t always have to be about something.
I love that you get that. I created a short little poem about exactly that many moons ago…you can read it here, if you’re interested.
http://nancybond.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/when-theres-nothing-to-say/ (And thanks for the link love!)
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What a sweet poem, Nancy! I really enjoyed that.
It’s important not to take this nature interpretation thing too far, I think. Balance is so essential.
(And you’re welcome!)
I have always thought cabbages were beautiful creatures. They remind me of big, fat, green roses (or red in your case). Found myself taking many photos of mine this past winter, which is our cabbage season. The family does not share my admiration, for some reason.
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Florida girl, they definitely have a beautiful rosette shape, especially early in the season. I believe it was Grace Pete who was saying she’d like to plant them in her flowerbeds if the breeders would make them compact enough. (And if I’m wrong about that attribution, somebody let me know!)
I think lots of folks don’t see beauty in a cabbage, unfortunately. For me, there is nothing finer. One nursery I go to has a huge cabbage, the outer wrapper leaves almost as wide as my kitchen table (admittedly small), in a large container with flowers and an elegant display of containers with trailing vines around it by the front entrance — and every time I walk in, I want to buy that pot and drag it home. Extremely effective design. Never mind that I couldn’t lift it! I just want the 20-lb. perfect cabbage by my front door.
Your focus posts and photographs are all awesome.
While this may just be a ripening cabbage, it has potential
to affect all of my senses.
Thank you, Gemma. I am glad to hear that it affected your imagination today.
Well maybe a cabbage is just a cabbage but it is a very pretty and colorful cabbage.
Thank you, Helen. I’ve come to appreciate its colors. At first I was a bit dismayed that these cabbages didn’t look uniformly red like in the grocery store, but now I’m glad each of them displays unique shading and individuality.
That is one fat & yummy looking cabbage, I see lots of coleslaw in your future.
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Racquel, is that cabbage actually a kind of crystal ball? Looking at it makes me feel the same.
Now, for me, you can keep all of your pretty colourful blooms and elegant petals. But that cabbage … that’s a real looker!
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IG, you sound like my grandfather whenever I take him garden pictures. He shuffles through the non-edible stuff pretty rapidly, going, “uh-huh, uh-huh,” trying to sort of fake that he cares. But then when we get to the cabbages, the beans, the cukes and the okra and the onions, the man perks up and looks 20 years younger all of a sudden.
I can understand you both, of course. A gorgeous cabbage, looking ready to bring into the kitchen, does something to my insides that a flower never quite could. But then, a flower does something that a cabbage couldn’t… I suspect they activate different aspects of my soul’s vast garden of emotional and spiritual possibilities.
I have never – in my whole life – seen such a beautiful cabbage – really!
Aw, that’s so nice, Claudia. I hope you enjoyed it.
Its a work of art in its own right Meredith – just look at that lovely colouration in the heart of the cabbage.
That’s what I love, too, Rosie, how it gets so intense and multicolored at its heart.