Today’s happiness is brought to you by a bowl of bruised, battered, and rather sorry-looking… but oh, so very sweet and delicious… green grapes. (What can I say? Fruit makes me happy!) Seriously, these were quite possibly the sweetest and most flavourful grapes I’ve ever tasted, and I delighted in every single bite.
100 Happy Days – Day 10
It’s a rather lovely surprise when something that isn’t particularly appealing at first glance turns out to be a treat. I’m sure there’s a deeper meaning in there somewhere – something about not judging by appearances or first impressions, maybe – but since this is a MicroblogMondays post I’ll stop right there and let you ponder it on your own!
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If muscadines are ever aesthetically pleasing, they are too sour to eat. Don’t ask me how I know that. I just do. 🙁
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September 22, 2014
LOL, I know what you mean!
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The grapes look really good, in spite of those few little spots!
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September 22, 2014
They were wonderful!
Laurel Regan recently posted… #MicroblogMondays 4 – Sweet + 100 Happy Days – Day 10
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September 22, 2014
Glad you enjoyed your grapes. Love the deeper meaning behind them about not assuming they’ll taste yucky because just because they have a few brown spots. I encountered that with my dog Tanner whom I assumed was frail and helpless by the way he looked. He was anything but when he escaped and was there munching on my neighbour’s garbage.
Never take appearances at face value, grapes or old dogs!
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September 22, 2014
LOL, love the last line!
Laurel Regan recently posted… #MicroblogMondays 4 – Sweet + 100 Happy Days – Day 10
Hey Laurel
Oh! I enjoy the various THEMES on your blog.
Grapes share the coveted first spot with Bananas in my list of favorite fruits! 😉 If I spot a grape, it goes into my mouth, although I do have a special fondness for the red, seedless variety! hehehe
Keep delighting our souls #HUGS
Kitto
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September 22, 2014
Grapes are definitely at the top of my favourites list!
Laurel Regan recently posted… #MicroblogMondays 4 – Sweet + 100 Happy Days – Day 10
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September 22, 2014
I am happy to be in Concord Grape season. Their tart skins and sweet fruit are so perfect on top of a bowl of breakfast cereal (yes, really). If they are a bit past prime, they are still so good to eat. Maybe that’s why I enjoy grapes in general. Concords, however, are the best, and their season is all too short.
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September 22, 2014
I’ve never tried grapes on breakfast cereal before – sounds intriguing!
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September 22, 2014
Watching my favorite Brittish Comedy “Are you bein served?” is making me very happy. Well that and a bag of Cheetos to myself. 🙂
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September 22, 2014
Nice! Now I want Cheetos. 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… #MicroblogMondays 4 – Sweet + 100 Happy Days – Day 10
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September 22, 2014
Love grapes too and they look good enough to eat: must be the water drops on them! 😉 I like the analogy of not judging at face value…how true! 😉 <3
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September 22, 2014
I like it too! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… #MicroblogMondays 4 – Sweet + 100 Happy Days – Day 10
That happens all the time with me and fruit. I’ll eat the pretty pieces, thinking they’ll taste best, and leave the bruised one until later. And then the bruised ones turn out to be the good ones.
Pretty grapes. You really captured the brightness.
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September 25, 2014
Thank you! Sometimes the pretty ones are the least tasty… fruit is funny!
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September 22, 2014
Wow! How a simple fruit provoked your thoughts! True, we must not judge too soon! What made me happy today? That I was able to write 2 posts in a short span of time, after ages! 🙂
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September 25, 2014
Well done! It’s so nice to start writing again after being blocked.
Laurel Regan recently posted… 100 Happy Days – Day 13
Fruit is my most favorite things ever! I love fruit so much I often would rather eat it than any other foods, but that’s not really reasonable 🙂
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September 25, 2014
I know what you mean… fruit is delicious!
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September 22, 2014
Oh what I wouldn’t do for a tasty bite of your green grapes! I LOVE fruit and green grapes (to me) are so much tastier than the purples ones.
Which do you like best? It sounds like you didn’t think the green ones would be so tasty, but changed your mind after savory every bite. 🙂
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September 25, 2014
I think that if I had to choose I’d pick green as my favourite, but really, as long as they’re sweet and seedless I’m happy!
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September 23, 2014
I really love how you photograph simple things.. be it for 100happydays or for the FMS photoaday…
Grapes are looking very good. I too agree with the non-appealing pieces. Happens to me too!
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September 25, 2014
Thank you so much! Sometimes the little things are very happy-making. 🙂
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September 23, 2014
Ahh lovely capture and a wonderful hidden message Laurel…
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September 25, 2014
Thank you! 🙂
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September 23, 2014
My doctor’s visit made me happy. 🙂
Those grapes look inviting! I am always surprised to find them sweet, we get a lot of them in the season. 🙂
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September 25, 2014
They were lovely – I’m only sad they’re gone now!
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September 23, 2014
Those grapes aren’t sour 🙂 In fact am going just now to grab some green grapes from the refrigerator! Juicy post!
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September 25, 2014
I would like some more myself – too bad they’re all gone!
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September 23, 2014
I love this observation, which I, also, have found to be true.
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September 25, 2014
Funny how we can learn from the silliest things!
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September 23, 2014
I love fruit too, and grapes are my favourite.
Isn’t it amazing that there’s a lesson in everything, if only we’d look?
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September 25, 2014
It’s so true!
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September 24, 2014
People tend to get too caught up on the look of perfection and toss away food for the slightest blemish. As a busy mom, I peel ugly veggies and cook them without a thought; waste not want not..
So glad you found goodness inside your slights bruised and battered grapes.
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September 25, 2014
Very true! I’m glad I gave the grapes a try. 🙂
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September 30, 2014
I like the way you found a life lesson in a bowl of grapes, which by the way, look delicious!
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September 30, 2014
Thank you! They were lovely. 🙂
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