While the donuts are delightful, I find it interesting that they became the feature desert the same week that area produce finally began to hit prime freshness. Local peaches and plums are the best they've been in years, dripping down your chin with each sugary bite. My parents have been raiding the local farmer's market several times a week and returning with a bounty of fresh fruit they've been eager to share.

Fresh this and fresh that. Our simple garden has been flourishing under our unskilled hands. But what the local farmers have been able to do with the weather this year is truly a bountiful harvest.

The fruits and vegetables are so good this year, the baked goods people have needed to resort to desperate measures. Everyone is familiar with the traditional chocolate covered donut: rich cakey donuts smothered in smooth dark chocolate. Saturday Night Live even did a classic parody of them with John Belushi. Little Chocolate Donuts: Breakfast of Champions.

But I have never before seen the likes of these milk chocolate covered donuts that Michelle brought back from the store. They've replaced the normal amount of dark chocolate with seemingly twice the amount of milk chocolate and, in the process, managed to produce a moist delicious alternative. They sell them in a plain white box of 8, but they should be sold individually wrapped in gold foil.

Mornings have never been so difficult. I know fruit is the healthy decision. Plus, with this year's crop, the fruit is so sweet and juicy, it normally wouldn't take more than a few moments of thought. But with the box of donuts calling my name, I find myself standing in the middle of the kitchen drooling and confused when snack time rolls around.

The donut man is no amateur. He knows the only way to combat the luscious beauty of a fresh peach is with the penultimate chocolate donut. And with a pregnant woman in the house, it was only a matter of time before the two met face to face in our kitchen. Coincidence? I think not.