Pale comparison

I haven't had eggs for weeks, since my hens stopped laying. I was so excited yesterday when I found some locally grown brown eggs in the Purple Mountain Natural Food Store. I was really looking forward to a breakfast of biscuits, fresh jelly, bacon and scrambled eggs. When I cracked open the first egg, I was so disappointed, the yolks were a pale white, when whisked they looked like I was cooking milk. The taste was just as pale. You never know how good something is until it is gone. The tomatoes are gone also. But the turnip greens are better than ever, I hate to think what the greens in the grocery store taste like.