Besides an ongoing tomato harvest (see this post) — and onions, garlic, beans, squash, kale of various kinds — we’ve now got lots of kiwis, for the first time since the kiwi vines were planted, in hopes they would eventually create a (now extremely thick) canopy over the front steps. When was that? Five years ago? Late this spring hundreds of tiny white flowers appeared above, and over the last month we’ve seen the vines begin to shed their leaves, spiced with tiny kiwis, dropping to the steps one by one, usually unnoticed, and soon squished.  

But the kiwis were so abundant that we finally took them seriously, and Marita hauled a ladder up the stairs to harvest them. 

But, the kiwis really didn’t want to come down before they fell, so we let them stay up there.

Meanwhile, on the back patio, besides Thursday Community Dinner, several people decided to do art. Besides Joseph, I’m not sure who; but I did I happen to catch a glimpse . . .

. . . and then decided to get closer, take a pic from the other side, this one including the beautiful, yellowed vintage wedding dress Aislinn is refurbishing before she puts it up for sale. 

 

Here’s a beautiful vine that, when I planted it, I thought was a bean but it’s now producing what looks like moon flowers?

Nature loves surprises. As were we surprised when, this morning, after 24 hours of sporadic thunderstorms, some of the kiwis finally let go.

THANK YOU, KIWIS! Delicious.