Red Lettuce

Favorite Pastimes

Red Lettuce

I've always enjoyed watching things grow. Maybe it is because all of my great-grandfathers were farmers. Once I planted a lettuce seed in a little glass bottle on my desk. I let it grow for about six months and it shot more than three feet out of the jar. On the very tip was a yellow lettuce flower. I took this picture of my sister's red lettuce patch just a few weeks ago. She is growing it to feed her flock of chickens. She doesn't mind the weeds because the chickens will eat those too. I like the beautiful reddish color of the ribbed leaves and how it contrasts with the rich, tropical green.