End-of-the Month SURPRISES

Enter the "not-so-Secret Garden."

Baby squash seeking light...

Exotic bromeliads graced with lacey webs...

Fuzzy upo (summer squash) backlit with 7 pm summer light...

Parda (Filipino peas) blooms swaying UPwards...

Sayote (chayote) after man-made shower...

Bless the LORD, O my soul,

And forget not all His benefits...

(Psalm 103:2)

BUMPER Crop

Wow...even the bush farm in Lagiloa did not produce a bumper crop like this one!

Summer squash...the waiting is over! Mom has been sauteeing upo with shrimp, or chicken, or pork...with lots of garlic.

Norma's favorite -- chilis -- but so far, lacking fire...

This season's upo out-produced last summer's crop...

Here and there...blushing tomatoes signal ripeness.

It took me a very long time -- and many, many life lessons -- to finally understand Galatians 6:7, A man reaps what he sows. "What goes around comes around," someone in Italy once told me. "For every action, there's an equal re-action" is one of the laws of physics.

So when we planted tomato seeds, of course we expected to harvest tomatoes. It just took me a (long!) while to transfer this practical knowledge into the spiritual realm on an experiential level. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the SPIRIT, from the SPIRIT will reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:8, NIV)

READY To EAT Garden Produce

Summer squash, Upo, almost ready...

Chayote...ready!

Ready tomorrow...

Uncle Ric with one upo ready to go...