My Garden's Bounty

For years I have harbored subversive thoughts about growing all my own food, cutting out the corporate agri-businesses with their genetically modified organisms, pesticides, insecticides and overall evil ways. What could be more disruptive of the status quo and the powers that be than becoming self-sufficient, able to provide for my basic need--food.

Instead of waiting until I have a proper piece of land, I bought a container, filled it with soil and plunked two tomato plants in it. The container is just outside my back door, against a concrete wall, setting on the concrete corridor. In short, I have no unpaved land on which to grow my food.

Although the teardrop yellow tomatoes have been going strong for a month now, the other plant has been slow to bring forth its bounty. Yesterday, however, I picked my first red tomato. I shared it with the dear son, who had dropped by for a meal after his job at the art museum and on his way to work at the restaurant. He halved the beautiful red orb. What a treat to eat something I've been fussing over for more than a month.

Also pictured here is my cactus and rock garden because not all plants have to have a purpose beyond being beautiful. Not every member of the vegetable kingdom has to be consumed. Some are just there for the sheer joy of growing and soaking up the sunshine.