The garden is taking off!

Finally--the melons and pumpkins and cucumbers and peppers and tomatoes--it's hot enough for them to start growing.

I took a lot of garden pictures tonight, because almost everything that has been sitting there sad and dreary for two months, has taken off in the past weeks.

There are lots of pictures to go through. In the meantime,

Tonight, in front of the garden



Next year I will grow even more collard greens. They are so fat and green and fast-growing, and they light up in the late evening sun. We keep picking them and eating them, and they grow back even faster.