red-tinged peppers – – haiku

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red-tinged peppers . . .

the trailing embers

of summer sun

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Haikai Challenge #155 – – remaining heat

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My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

17 thoughts on “red-tinged peppers – – haiku”

    1. Great! The peppers I am growing this year ripen to orange (from green to orange) but red-tinged rolls off my tongue easier than orange-tinged. Usually I grow red peppers but I gave small orange ones a try this year. The process is the same…hoping for sufficient heat and sun to coax out the full ripe colour and there has been, but the sun has been hiding lately. The final pick will have splashes of orange but probably more green unless we get another wave of sun soon!

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      2. My small orange peppers did well this summer but the last ones won’t ripen fully unless there is another sunny heat wave. My pepper theory is that because of the short growing season here, smaller varieties are more likely to reach their mature colour.

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