Drama Queens of Summer

tomatoes, the arrival of Leo season and the slog of the dog days

This gorgeous tomato is an heirloom, Barnes Mountain Orange, that quite regularly weighs in at well over two pounds and tastes more like a cantaloupe than your traditional tomato flavor.

When the dog star Sirius rises and sets with the sun over a roughly forty day period across July and August, the Greeks and Romans believed that with it came some of t…