In just 12 weeks, this water melon has grown from the size of a marble to this 15lb giant.
Fruits like this cannot be stored or easily preserved, so this is the time of feasting and sharing.
The community spirit of these places is honed and deepened with this spirit of sharing.
It gives me immense satisfaction that I have enough of my own produce to share with these good people.
With every passing day I become less of a stranger and more deeply enmeshed in the never ending seasons of Saladaviciosa.
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Photo: Sandia freshly harvested from my huerta. Courtesy of the author.