Good for your heart

 

Scarlet Runners

22"x30 on Arches

 

Last September I harvested my first crop of red runner beans.
Red runners aren't something that my family planted.
I had seen seed packs, read about them, saw pictures in magazines.
But I had never seen them in a garden.  I bought seeds.

 I planted them along a fence.
They grew, bloomed in bright scarlet almost orchid-like.  I let them be.
In the fall I discovered long dried pods with beans in them.
I harvested them in a colander.

I fell in love with the variety of colours, the shapes, the patterns.

I had to paint them.