Everything is booming!

I stopped in the garden for the first time this summer to check up and see how everything was going. The drip irrigation system is working beautifully. It was even running when I got there. Everything is going crazy. There are pumpkin feelers invading every corner of the garden. Little pumpkins are already getting started. The corn stalks and sunflowers are tall and happy. No ears of corn are ready yet. Every tree is happier than I've ever seen them in the summer. The lemon trees have produced tons of lemons. The kumquat tree has fragrant little white blossoms, and the fig has hundreds of figs proud and ripening in the sun. The plum tree has definitely had some visitors who enjoyed all of the fruit it had to offer this year. There are grapes hiding among the leaves all along the fence. They are not quite ready, but by next week will be perfectly ripe and sweet. So if you happen to be around, feel free to reach through the fence and enjoy some. The lambs' ear patch has taken off around the Mexican sage that the butterflies and bees are laboring over. All in all, everything is truly alive and kicking.