the Heart Approaches What It Yearns

I’ve actually managed to grow things here, for which my mom will be very impressed.

It was a family joke that I should always stay away from the garden and only tend to the animals. Some people are just poison to plants, yet I’m managed to grow tomatoes, green beans and sunflowers. OK, I know, any idiot can grow sunflowers. Well, I’m not just any idiot; I think I was the only farm girl in Kansas who couldn’t grow a sunflower, which is practically a weed. All of mine always died. Here in Texas, I’ve grown lots. One is actually starting to bear seeds, what with the rain we’ve had. And the tomatoes are pretty good, too! Tonight we’re going to make pizza out of this one.

At the bottom, is a pumpkin plant that suddenly came up out of the compost pile. A couple of years ago, after making jack-o-lanterns for the kids for Halloween, Maggie dumped out the seeds on the compost pile. Well, the have suddenly started growing, so we’re watering them. So it figures that Maggie could get something to grow long after she was dead. I’m sure there’s some kind of allegory there somewhere.

Happy Half-Nekkid Thursday!