Beans

There was a bit in a book or movie about a woman who loved to plunge her hands into bins of beans in the grocery store, and I didn’t really understand it. I always thought of dried beans as powdery and flakey. But fresh dried beans, fresh dried beans are glorious and wonderful to run through your hands. At Full Circle Farm we grow beans for eating fresh, and this year some beans for drying. Unfortunately volunteer workers keep accidentally picking the shelling beans thinking they are ripe eating beans. But some of them make it to the drying stage. This lovely bucket is the result of a great big pile of bean plants. Penelope agreed that they were wonderful to plunge your hands into, silky smooth and clattery. Magic beans. Pour your favorite toddler a bowl full to play with.

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I think the movie you are referring to is “Amelie”. The DVD has some directors’ commentary about that part that is fascinating.

Thanks maryanne, I was really surprised how much I liked that picture myself, I think it’s the light and shininess, but I’m not sure.  Take enough pictures and sometimes you get some really nice ones!

Thanks Valerie, that sounds right.  My brain was stuck on the image of the woman who sticks her thumbs into the bread in Tampopo, another fabulous movie.

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