Plants I'm Growing: Hot Peppers

I bought several pepper plants at the start of the season and one of them has done extraordinarily well. These were supposed to be Jimmy Nardello peppers, which are a sweet variety. I harvested some recently and roasted them with a little salt and olive oil and nearly died after the first bite. They turned out to be very, very hot, about as hot as a cayenne pepper. 

I was rather confused until a couple of weekends ago I talked to a grower at one of our local farmer's markets and he said that there was a seed mix-up at one the major suppliers of starts and that it was likely mislabeled. I have no idea what these actually are, but I'm going to dry them and use them (very judiciously) as a seasoning. 

Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 276 (Santa Rosa)

Here's a collage from the end of last year. This is Untitled Collage No. 276 (Santa Rosa), Acrylic on paper, acrylic monotype, found paper (fragment from Carol Dalton). Image size: 41.4cm x 32.0cm (14.8in x 11.0in). Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on the reverse. 

Click on the image for a larger view. For more of my abstract monotype collage work, visit my website at http://ctalcroft.wixsite.com/collage-site/. 

 

Better yet, if you're in Northern California or you're planning a visit soon, stop by my studio during the second weekend of this year's Art Trails open studio event and see my work in person. October 7 and 8. Studio open 10:00AM to 5:00P.