Living the 7th

Remember the lettuce we planted shortly before Winter Solstice? We’ve been eating them.

Here is one of them  12/21/07:

It was like this on  1/30/08:

On 2/8/04 it had gotten this fluffy so I decided to harvest it and its friends and make a salad:

Here is the first harvest:

Julia did not want to be in the picture. She said she’d hide behind lettuce:

Here is some of the salad. It was excellent — vibrant and fresh:

Here we are on 2/17/04. The bottom box that I harvest about nine days ago is filling back in:

I decided to harvest the top box:

Here’s our second harvest in a large, deep, round bowl:

Now I’m trying to decide what sort of salad it will be and we will eat it for dinner.