A tiny sweet treat

When I walk out of our condo neighborhood in the mornings, I've noticed small cherry tomato plants growing in a flower bed that edges the driveway. It always makes me smile, because I figure that most of the people are driving in and out every day and don't even realize that there are tomatoes growing there.

One morning some of the maintenance guys were weeding that bed when I came back from my run, so I stopped to ask them about the tomatoes. They said that someone planted a few tomato plants a while back, and they just keep coming up. Then one of the men asked me if I liked tomatoes, and I assured him that, yes, we love tomatoes. He told me, "We'll bring you some."

When he appeared at our door a few minutes later, I was expecting maybe a dozen tomatoes. Instead, he brought a plastic grocery sack over half filled with tiny cherry tomatoes:

And I do mean tiny:

Yes, they were just as sweet as we hoped they would! We shared some with a neighbor, and just ate lots of tomatoes for a couple of days.

Then, several weeks later, another one of the guys showed up at our front door with another bag full. As I've noted before, the produce in the stores on St. Thomas is shipped in, so it's never really fresh. Needless to say, these just-picked tomatoes have been a wonderful treat!