Potential....of sprouts.

Yes, they are really quite small.....

Say, a quarter of an inch or so....

Brilliant green, leafy heads too heavy to hold up...

Such potential....

Mostly, herbs...

future accompaniments to salads, cheese, pasta,

all things good...

I love the potential of a seed,

so small that I can hardly place it...

Within days, really only 2 or 3,

there is the wispy, hair of new growth.

I can envision Pesto Pasta,

steaming in a bowl with grated Parmesan falling on top.

This is the favorite of the trio, I call "boys".

They are not really boys,

they are all old enough to vote, marry, buy cars,

and enlist, but I won't go there...

Pesto Pasta found it's way into the hearts

of my boys on a beach trip.

I was trying to stick to a very tight budget,

having jumped into the realm of "self-employed".

It was August and I knew the Basil plants

wouldn't make it long in the heat, and our absence.

So, I ripped them all out of the ground

and pulverised every remaining snippet

into the wonderful soup called pesto.

I froze it overnight and prayed

that it would season the two pounds of pasta.

It worked, and the boys loved it.

Now we do not go to the beach

without a large freezer baggie of the wonderful greenness

that is found in these leaves of potential.

Sprouts!