A Sunny Garnish Scarlet sun-dried peppers imported from Turkey are not as sweet or as oily as some sun-dried tomatoes, but they add a pleasant little kick in sandwiches, salads, sauces, egg dishes and dips.
For more than an hour they stand there while a solid, scarlet disk of sun sinks into the tree-lined horizon.
Few who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s are unable to sing a chorus of "Island in the Sun", "Scarlet Ribbons" or "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", all hits for Harry Belafonte.
The center offers a booklet, "The Common Spring Wildflowers of Placerita Canyon". Generally, you can expect to see goldfields, lupines, Mariposa lilies, scarlet buglers, Southern sun cups, black sage and California buckwheat this month.
A national spring game record crowd of 95,722 came out to watch Terrelle Pryor throw two long touchdown passes in 30 seconds, leading the Gray over the Scarlet, 23-3, at sun-drenched Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
Turner Contemporary has many beautiful examples – a Patrick Heron sun glowing red in a scarlet sky; several Paul Nash landscapes in which the sun is variously alive and dramatically dead; Samuel Palmer's tiny ink and watercolour Moonrise.
A picture of the inferno, a core as bright as the sun, surrounded by scarlet flames and billows of black smoke.
There is something new for the spice rack: scarlet, sand-textured powder from sun-dried tomatoes.
Black and spectacled caiman bask confidently in the sun, as pairs of scarlet macaws cackle loudly overhead.
Pick a spot on the pier, dangle your legs over the water and watch the setting sun turn the bay scarlet.
