Produce waste bins

 

Fill 'em up 'n' throw 'em out

At the back of a market, a row just installed and still clean bright orange-red bins stands ready to receive the wasted organic and produce food products.  The chain keeps scavengers from scrounging from the bins.

 

Berry very purple

 

Red and black berries

 

A black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) bush shows its red and black (more like a very, very dark purple with red) berries.

 

Black is better

 

This cluster of black raspberries show the different stages of ripeness.  The darkest berries are the ripest and the sweeter and juicier they be.  The red, not so at all, even though they resemble ripe red raspberries.

Apple blossom time

 

Waiting for a pollinator

 

 

Pollinate me!

 

Apple blossoms now mean apples by the Fourth of July (or that week).

Ripe and ready

 

Close up

There is something that seems unsettling about getting this close and personal with a pineapple. 

Yellow melon

 

Ellipsoids in a box

 

A box is enough to keep these mellow yellow canary melons - named so after the color of the bird - from getting away when a buyer approaches them.

 

Fruity signs

Pick a color, any color!

Colorful descriptions and fanciful fonts entice shoppers to buy fruit at the corner store.

 

White onions

Onions, onions

White onions in the bin at the vegetable stand await a buyer.

Golden apples in the sun

Golden Delicious (var. Malus domestica) 

A wooden crate of Golden Delicious apples glows in the afternoon sun.

Napa and flat

Two of many

The vegetable stand placed these Napa and flat cabbages next to each other; they are two of many cabbage cultivars. 

Friendly fruit

Grapefruit and limes and lemons

Contrary to the belief that they also have a sour attitude, citrus fruits are quite convivial and will visit with the fruits in the neighboring bins.

 

Sunny turnips

Sunlit turnips

The afternoon sun reveals the imperfections in these turnips.  They do look a little worse for wear, but that does not affect their taste.

n.b.  these are NOT the famous Westport turnips.

 

Green heads

Waiting in the shade

Green cabbages await their fate at the corner fruit and vegetable store.

Located on the south side of the store, the heads are sheltered from direct sunlight by shade from an overhanging roof; sunlight reflected from the sidewalk provides the high light from below.  

Purple heads

Red cabbages

In deep shadow and lit from below by reflected sunlight, these red cabbages present a purple view.

Onions wait

 

 

Onions in a box

 

 Yellow onions in a box at the vegetable store patiently await a buyer.

Wrapped up and ready

 

Papayas wrapped in tissue paper

 

All bundled up in protective tissue paper, with just their bottoms peeking out, these papayas await buyers at the greengrocers.

 

 

 

Lemony lemon

Brilliantly yellow 

A red plum dropped in to visit with its lemon bin neighbors.