Surprise of Purple

When you buy vegetable plants you are taking the word of the tag saying what the variety it is. I can tell the difference between a tomato seedling and a zucchini. But I can’t tell a habanero pepper seedling from an ancho. Pepper seedlings tend to look like when they are little.

I bought six different varieties of peppers at the Durham Farmers Market in April. One plant of each from sweet to your-heads-on-fire hot. So far I have gotten some Jalapeños which are the most useful, so I’m happy with that.

I tend to like big sweet red peppers, which are just green peppers that you have left to turn red. I thought I had one of those plants, but imagine my surprise when I got three nice sized purple peppers. They glossy and beautiful. We have not tried them yet, but based on their size and shape I am assuming they are sweet.

Purple peppers are just one of life’s little surprises. They probably taste like green, red or orange, but they are so much cuter being purple.

I hope that life brings you some sweet purple surprises this week. A rainbow of colors is so much better than a monochrome of all green, even if they are beautiful greens. I celebrate the rainbow. The world needs purple peppers right now. We need to see beauty in all things that are different. They are still peppers, just a little different. Hooray for the surprise of purple.