Eggs, colorful and fresh rest in a vintage wire gathering basket. A wife on a farmstead along the Skagit River near Bow, WA, placed a large picnic cooler on a card table along side the rural road, next to the river dike. The honor system was in place with a large canning jar being the repository for the payment of the eggs you want. These days I don’t carry much cash, sometimes none at all. Every place I shop, I can swipe a debit card and therefore don’t need to carry cash. But here I was faced with cartons containing some of the prettiest eggs I’d laid eyes on in a long time. I dug deep for bills and coins coming up with enough for three dozen beauties! I believe the breed that lays these beautiful blue/green eggs are Araucana (please correct me if I’m wrong), and likely the brown eggs might be from Rhode Island Reds (or at least that’s what we had when I was growing up). After posing for a photo session, they made several delicious breakfasts and several baked treats!
Sharing with ‘Rural Thursday Blog Hop #6,’ and ‘Share the Joy,’ and ‘Thursday Favorite Things #26,’ and ‘This or That Thursday.’
I wonder if the eggs are colored or came this color? I have seen brown eggs and all shades of brown and white, of course, but none these colors. I did see two Goose eggs yesterday and was astonished at their size. I think I have had a goose egg for breakfast once during the war years but have no recollection of its taste.
Chicken eggs will taste like what the chicken eats. You can feed chickens green onion tops cut off of little green onions and the chickens will eat them. And in a day or two, the eggs will come out tasting like green onions. I kid you not. The eggs you get in supermarkets taste like chicken feed or the food they eat. That has to be carefully controlled to avoid people getting an egg that tastes more like molasses than corn–for example.
True story Abraham… farm eggs from chickens that get to scratch outside they usually taste wonderful and rich, oh and the yolks are so deeply colored!
they are almost too pretty to eat….almost!
Almost… ;-)
Love the wire gathering basket – we have one of those as well that my MIL gave us. We have a hen that lays blue eggs and she is an Americauna. :-) Her name is Natasha.
Don’t you love that wire basket?? I blew a few of them to display in my basket, but alas the colors fade out after time… I need to drive back up to the Skagit Delta and see if this farm is still selling them… :-) Natasha, sweet!
These are brilliant and your picture, perfect! My great-grandparents had a chicken farm – apparently none that produced blue or green eggs – a whole new look at green eggs and ham. I would have been so tempted to blow out the contents and clean and keep the shells.
I did… but after a while the sunlight fades the beautiful colors away… :-(
Beautiful eggs! I don’t know if I would have been able to crack and eat them!
I guess Abe has never seen eggs from some of the more exotic breeds of chickens. They come in shades of blue, green, and even pink. These have been carefully and tenderly washed and make a beautiful photo.
P.S. I’m still getting through Blogger the notification of your blog posting.
I feel so citified – I’ve never seen such beautiful eggs! I bet they did taste amazing! I want some –
Oh my, how beautiful. So colorful…
I love this! I recently started buying eggs from a friend of mine who keeps chickens where she lives outside of town. I like them a lot better and feel like a better citizen by getting farm fresh.
Ah yes, Araucanas and they’re lovely green legs lay the loveliest of green eggs. I miss having chickens!
Wow, I have never seen such beautiful eggs. I would dig around until I could buy them too!
gorgeous!
Oh my Madge, too beautiful to eat!!! I’ve never seen eggs with these colors. Who needs to dye Easter eggs with these around?
WEll! I never!
Greeneggs in all those lovelyshades.
What a treat.
And I like the way you made use of the shadows.
Great image and lovely story.
Wonderful wonderful photograph, Madge. I’ve just been introduced recently to those pretty green eggs! I’m blog hopping today through Ruby for Women. Stop by and see me sometime!
Amy
I miss having fresh eggs. Wonderful photo and I love the wire basket.
Really great shot! Love the basket and the shadows it creates!
A really nice shot! The eggs look beautiful!
I do love my farm fresh eggs. I don’t have any of the fun “Easter Egg” chickens, but there are many varieites of hens that lay brown, dark brown, tan, and white eggs. They do taste better.
this is the type photo i want to learn to take, it is so crystal clear and gorgeous. did you use a tripod? i dont’ think so? was it a macro lens? LOVE IT
A very good picture, artistic and technically is wonderful with this delicious light and fine texture with a great variety of tones. The focus is delicious. A great work of art. Greetings.
Very pretty picture Madge – and I’ve never seen a green egg!
What a great picture – those eggs look wonderful.
really beautiful photo – the colors and shadows are wonderful.
Now, that’s a very cool and sharp photo!
The light on these eggs adds a graphic quality that I like in addition to the unusual color of the eggs. Fabulous shot.
oh!! The endless color and variety of fresh farm eggs…what a de LIGHTful photo
x..x
The eggs are beautiful (I’ve seen bluish-green eggs from Martha Stewart, so I knew about the different colors from different breeds), but what astonishes and delights me is the interplay of light and shadows. . . the spiral shapes from the wire basket. Wow!
cool & colorful eggs!! i can just about taste the freshness!!
I don’t think I had farm fresh eggs until I was married. I have about 20 chickens and LOVE my homegrown eggs. I have 3 differnt breeds of hens (Not planned, just luck of the draw from the gals that I get chicks from). I get white eggs, brown eggs and brown eggs with little spot on them.
Cool picture. I like the wire basket shadow and green eggs!
Lots of different hens that lay the brown eggs. They say if a chicken has red ear flaps, she will lay brown eggs. I haven’t tested that theory as yet.
Beautiful basket and lovely eggs in so many hues. Thanks for sharing at Rural Thursday, Madge. :)
This is a wonderful photo….I love the colors, the shadows, and how the basket made the patterns on the eggs. I tried free-range eggs sometime ago and couldn’t quite develope a taste but will give it another try. A friend raises several types of chickens…if I can get these colors, the change will be worth me developing the taste! Again, absolutely love this shot!
WoW! Just look at those beauties! YuMmMmMmY! =) I wouldn’t have felt comfortable leaving my money there for fear that someone else would come along & take it leaving the owner empty anyway… =0
What a beautiful photograph of what many of us “rural” folks take for granted! :)
I love the wire egg basket!
Ahh.. Bow, WA. Love it there! And these eggs look divine! Almost too pretty to eat. Beautiful photo and the basket is, well, just perfect!
Ooooh, lovely colors, I want to paint my walls with those beautiful shades of green and blue! Isn’t is so wonderful to drive down a road and find these for sale! And the honor system, no less. Yes, America at it’s best. I wonder if Dr. Seus had in mind these eggs when he wrote ‘Green eggs and Ham’! Beautiful photo! xx
The green and blue eggs would be from Amarucana chickens.
Beautiful photo.
Regards and best wishes
Oh how I love the color tones and the shadows from the wire basket…and of course they taste even better than they look! FYI, we’ve had Sex Links which are a red colored hen and Barred Rock which are a black with white dots and they both lay nice brown eggs.
This is such a beautiful, classic image… I would frame it and hang it in my kitchen!
These look like they are ready for the EASTER BASKET.
I’ve never seen blue/green eggs like that, except when colored at easter! Those are so cool.
Love the shadows and the textures in your shot, Madge. I remember as a lid picking fresh eggs at my grandmothers. Fresh is always the best.
Great shot, Madge! Love the texture in the egg shells!
Beautiful shadows on these eggs!
Wow! Great shot! Not only beautiful eggs (colors, textures) but wonderful lighting and shadows!
We stayed at a place on the Calif. coast that had a garden for guests and a flock of chickens that provided eggs as well. We were given fresh eggs each morning that were in colors like yours but not quite as bright. What a treat.
Three dozen!? Wonderful assortment.
Absolulely stunning photo. The set up, angle…all of it. I have such eggs sitting around on a regular basis and so I can truly appreciate your interpretation of the ordinary. Well done.
Madge, I want to take pictures like you when I grow up! You are SO talented. I’ve never seen eggs look so beautiful!
You had me at “farm fresh”. i love the photo too. My daughter and her family raise chickens and they have several chickens that lay colored eggs. Love it! I’m so happy you linked this post to the blog hop today xo