THEN...and NOW

Welcome sign from the ShoppE at Rose's, refurbished a-la-rLn...

WELCOME! to our garden...

THEN -- May -- squash plants...

with leaves a-fuzzed.

NOW -- September -- at last...

a squash, the fruit of much patient waiting.

THEN -- April -- sunlit peach blooms...

NOW -- September 11 -- edible peaches.

THEN -- March -- young chayote plant seeking light...
growing UPwards...

NOW -- August and up to now -- chayote everywhere!

THEN -- May -- summer squash plant in the morning light...

trained to grow UP...

NOW -- July -- and even today, September 11,

summer squash still bearing fruit.

THEN -- May -- green first fruits...

NOW -- July through today...late fruits still on the vine.

THEN -- July -- already pleasing to the eyes...

NOW -- September 11 -- ampalaya vines

providing wonderFUL shade from the noon sun,

a haven for contemplation, a quiet corner for lunch...

an inviting "secret garden."

"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain." (John 12:24) Thus JESUS died so that many may rise.