Just Peachy

 

7/26/23 Peachy in Maple Leaf

Although they would be neck-and-neck with strawberries, peaches may be my favorite summer fruit. Since I refuse to buy fruit that came on a truck from California or Mexico the rest of the year, I can get local peaches only for a few weeks each summer. Like strawberries and sakura blossoms, they are fleeting seasonal jewels.

I’ve sometimes blogged about Metropolitan Market’s Peach-o-Rama peaches (available right now), which are the best I’ve ever eaten, but I rarely sketch those peaches because they don’t last long in our kitchen before we breathe them down. In recent weeks, however, I’ve been watching peaches grow on a nearby neighbor’s sidewalk tree. Although the tree has been there for years, it hasn’t always grown fruit as abundantly as this year. We must have had just the right spring conditions of temperature and rain. Not yet ripe, they are just beginning to show a pink blush, so I stopped one morning to sketch one.

Although I was tempted to eat one, I’m perfectly happy with just a sketch. And now, off to Metropolitan Market!