comes running in, alll excited!

Wooohooooooo!!! Okay, so I could NOT wait to show y'all---an eggplant!! So exciting!! I don't know if a baby eggplant means pollination happened or not; guess we'll know in a couple days if the fruit falls off the plant... but OH tis so exciting!

This made me laugh; tis the butternut vine, seeking new soil... won't find it here on the concrete though...

Told ya I had pepper blossoms.

I think my row of greenness is wonderful. There was nothing here but concrete before, and now--there is life, burgeoning!

Irrepressible life, burgeoning, lol... I have NO IDEA how this lil plant got itself growing in a concrete block wall (they aren't clay bricks, they're concrete), but I salute it!! To life!!

Wouldja look at that!

Better than I expected, better than I dared to dream! Look at that butternut squash!

Of course, watering it like I did brought the rain two days early this week *blink, blink* and I'm seriously beginning to wonder just what is going on here... lol! Hey, this time I didn't even fertilize!

Something else really likes the rain....

Say hello to amaranth. You can see that it took a huge gulp of water and just, well, expanded! I wish I could get basil to grow like that! And no, I'm not going to pull the weeds; they're very nearly as nutritious as purslane and I've been wishing for years that I could have a chance to try them and see what they taste like. Now I have a chance!

True leaf time! First off, the punkins at the back of the purslane pot--and those droplets you see are rain; I snuck out between showers to get these pics.

The seedlings in the eggplant pot seem to be catching up with the seedlings in the pepper pot now. Maybe the difference is sunlight? The shade comes in gradually from south to north, and gets to the eggplant first.

Then we have this exciting lil development--a pepper blossom! Wooohooo!

Last but not least at ALL--check this out--new growth on the butternuts. Can you imagine? On the 7th, nearly dead, on the 8th, burgeoning new growth?! Like I said, beyond all my expectations!

I'll get back to art postings soon; I've been reading a lot lately while I wait for my wrists to settle back down. The Friends of the Library store had three issues of a magazine called Belle Armoire that I am enjoying right now; inspiration on every page.