Enamored with Growth

Things are actually growing in my garden!

I'll say it again since this is pretty much a first in my horticulturally-frustrated life:

THINGS ARE ACTUALLY GROWING IN MY GARDEN!

Look at this plot. It's positively over-run by fruit-bearing foliage:


(That's Bruiser's orange tail, in case you were wondering.)

See the dark swath just to the right of the center in the photo below? That's the "walkway" between the westerly snow pea plants and the easterly everything else. I think I'll need a machete to retrieve the tomatoes once they're ripe.


We've been enjoying the pea pods for a few weeks now. They start out as these pretty little white flowers:


And grow into these green iciclish looking things:


(I must confess that I was a little disappointed when I ate my first pea pod. The name of the kind we planted was "Melting Sugar", but I guess I was kind of dumb for expecting it to taste like some confection. It's definitely a veggie. :) )

This little alien look alike is swelling with culinary potential.


Watch your back, Buddy.

I'm genuinely in awe of God's creativeness in my back yard.

Check out this massive cuke:


Here's one of its baby siblings:


Isn't it cute? The yellow flower at the end will dry up and fall off and the bumpy column above will continue to grow and grow until I snap its umbilicus. I sound like some sort of a monster, don't I?

And just because it was here when I sat down at the computer desk to download the garden pics, here's one of Delaney's many doodles:


It's hard to be irritated with the multiple paper scraps she leaves around the house when they're decorated with her adorable handiwork.

It's the little things...

:)