Carrots!!!!

Ahhh... Carrots. You can't even imagine what you will miss until it isn't available.

Yep, found carrots today, and aubergine. Such riches - the season of abundance has arrived. At last... (and for how long, one wonders...)

Actually, I got a huge bag of veggies (carrots, aubergine, garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers, limes) for under $2. And coming from Tokyo, that's a shocker! And I've got 2 beautiful pineapples as well. But they were expensive, $1 for the two of them.

We are currently eating the lettuce from our own garden, and the mandarin oranges from our back yard tree. Waiting on two bunches of bananas, one of which will probably be ripe while we are freezing in Ottawa over Christmas.

People in Canada talk about the weather - here, we talk about FOOD. Where you can get what, what you have at home, a vaguely decent restaurant. It is almost inevitable that any coversation will eventually turn to edibles.