First Radish Harvest!

I was so excited when I saw the pink shoulders of the radish bumping above the soil line.

I read that you should pluck them from the ground at this early stage, so they are sweet and mild.

So I did.

Aren't they pretty?

I had them for breakfast. I tried butter on one side, cream cheese on the other. With kosher salt everywhere. Butter won.

It is a joy to eat something so delicious you just pulled from your earth, and sit and stare and hear birds, and think on all the gems still growing in that little patch.