For the last several weeks I have been immersed in the world of yellowfin tuna, artistic tunas, that is. Hours and hours spent with the 42 fish for this year's Art Drive. This morning I needed to be a bit closer to the world of real fish, so I took a stroll along the New Bedford waterfront. Monday is a busy day as boats get ready to journey out.

Dodging around rigging trucks and watching welder's sparks fly, I saw a most unexpected sight....tomato plants. On the deck of Nell, a small barge piloted by Ray were four tomato and one cucumber plant. Every year he plants his crops in five gallon buckets and lashes them safely aboard.

"I got all this sun all day... Why not?" he says with the smile.

Ray may earn his keep on the sea, but he is a born gardener.....