Carrot Portends Trip To Southwest

One of the underrated benefits of travel is that you become familiar enough with distant landmarks and landscapes to recognize them when they are reproduced in oddly shaped vegetables.

Behold: my saguaro carrot!

Had I not visited the Saguaro National Park in Tucson to see the vast forests of branching cacti, I might not have recognized the shape of this carrot.

Full disclosure: I did not grow this carrot in my pathetic vegetable patch, but purchased it from the Hard Rain Farm in my hometown of Burlington, Connecticut. I had not previously run across any oddly shaped vegetables from the Hard Rain Farm, although I once got an egg so huge that I was convinced it had been laid by an ostrich.

In any event, just as a huge egg portends a big omelette, I see an omen in the carrot. I must go to Tucson this winter.