“pretty as a peach”

It’s high season for peaches here in the mitten.  Joy!  And better yet, the freestones are here, with Bellaires leading the way.  The beauties in the peck I bought at the farmers’ market yesterday morning are already stripped, sliced, and put up.  A ritual I thoroughly enjoy.  But every time I gaze on a bowl of peaches I’ve just peeled – pretty in their own right – I wonder if I’ve deprived the fruit of some of its beauty just to save eaters of my bounty from having to fight through fuzz.  After all, isn’t it that skin that makes them “pretty as a peach”?  So I ask the readers of this blog to help me decide: do you prefer your peaches clothed or naked?

Published by rike52

I retired from the Rheumatology division of Michigan Medicine end of June '19 after 36 years there. Upon hitting Ann Arbor for the second time (I went to school here) it took me almost 8 months to meet Kathy, 17 months to buy her a house (on Harbal, where we still live), and 37 months to marry her. Kids never came, but we've been blessed with a crowd of colleagues, friends, neighbors and family that continues to grow. Lots of them are going to show up in this log eventually. Stay tuned.

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