Heirloom tomatoes

While I was working on a painting of sunflowers, the season has changed. Maybe it is still summer. The temperature is more than 90 degree in the midday, and I cannot stop using an air conditioner when I sleep. However, there is a definite change at the market.

I have been working on the portraits series of heirloom tomatoes since last summer. These tomatoes are so seasonal. Last summer, farmers told me that I could see heirloom tomatoes until around the end of September, or a little less depends on the weather. I remember that I constantly worried when the tomato season would end. My bad habit is that if I have something specific to get for my painting, I cannot see other. As soon as I get it, only one thing I think of is going home. Because of the sunflower, I haven’t paid great attention to the other. Of course, I buy vegetable and fruit for my dinner table, but it is different. How different? Don’t ask me, it is just....different. So, when I became ready for the tomato paintings, the season of the tomatoes was almost gone. Now, the tomatoes are too ripen and looks like rotten already. It smells nice as aged wine, so is probably good for eating today, but I need them to keep the shape at least for a week. At the end, I got some for my salad, not for my paintings for the day. It tasted good. I thought about the series- what I could do for the paintings which I had planned for this year - while I was eating the salad. It’s gonna be terribly fewer that I thought. I will keep looking for fresh ones for the paintings, but most of tomatoes would go for my salad... Gosh, I have to but a lot of mozzarella cheese.