His large, colorful painting "Watermelon" (2009), an expressionistic tour de force depicting a ripe watermelon, is the most visually alluring work in the show.
And if you like Châteauneuf du Pape, I'm sure you'll love the gloriously rich, ripe Château La Tour de Beraud 2009 Costières de Nîmes (14% abv) at a fraction of the price: it's £8.19 from rannochscott.co.uk, £8.29 from ballantynes-direct.co.uk, £8.50 from Cooden Cellars in Eastbourne and £8.65 from Grape & Grind in Bristol.
But unlike the Eighties, the decade endlessly relived via outings from the likes of ABC, Duran Duran and the rolling circus of the Here and Now tour, the Nineties is an era ripe for revisiting.
He was reminded of that last week at the Dunhill Links, a favourite among European Tour players, not only for the ripe purse it offers – one of the biggest on tour – but the pleasure of playing the three classics of Angus and Fife: Carnoustie, Kingsbarns and, of course, St Andrews.
It's been a long time since the glory days of Uncle Sam, when troops were met with flowers and ripe virgins on their tours of liberation, but that hasn't dampened the USA's war libido.
The time for him was ripe to undertake the first extended geological tour across Italy, in 1811 1812 (Pancaldi 1991; Rudwick 2005), with which came the fruits of a work seeded decades and centuries before by his Italian predecessors (Dominici 2009).
"I was ripe for it," she said, as she toured the exhibition with Mr. Thiesing and some visitors.
Guided tours cover the labor-intensive process of taking coffee from plump ripe "cherry" to dry bean ready for roasting and include free samples of justly renowned Kona coffee.
Then, after a stint as U2's on-the-road cinematographer during their 360° tour, he cashed in his rockstar money and made the short film Fishing Without Nets at the ripe old age of 23.
With such low-hanging fruit ripe for the picking, how did Bell's new artistic director, Peter Evans – in charge of a national tour that kickstarted in Orange earlier this year and ends next month in Sydney – go so wrong?
