First, my sweet little herb garden. It's really starting to take off!



For some reason, everything is flourishing except my basil. I have no idea what the reason for that is. So, yes, that's evil nasty Sevin dust on the basil. I promise I'll wash it really well, and probably not do that anymore. I just really, really want it to grow and nothing else was working.

This is our first tomato.



It's just so cute. The angle of this photo makes it look huge, but it's about 1.5 inches across, on a tomato plant that's about 8 inches tall. Ah, the magic of photography.

This is our first pepper.



It's cute, too, but it'll be cuter when it's a red pepper. I'm told that if I just leave it alone long enough, it'll turn. I hope so. This is what happens when idiots garden. All we have to go on is what "they" say on the internet, and you know how risky that can be.

Here's my sweet pea, fixing to flower. We have 3 rows of these, and they are going to be *so* good. I just. can't. wait. to taste them.



I've had just the best time watching the pea vines take hold of the fence and climb up. Reminds me that there's an infinitely clever Creator of the universe that designed the whole place, and we should just sit back and watch sometimes.

This is our "upper garden." There are two similarly sized patches, maybe 12 yards by 25 yards each. One is up the hill a little, and one isn't. One has about 8,000 potential zuchinis, and one has about 3,000 potential peppers. We'll see come August which one we like the best. I'm holding out for peppers, myself.



This is the view from my garden. It's the neighborhood I grew up in, and the one I'm so thankful I get to raise my kids in.



This is the little neighborhood church. There's the little league field across the street from the church.

Here, I rotated the camera about 15 degrees. Maybe more. I'm not too sure about degrees. How's this? It's a little to the left of the shot before.



The brick building you can barely see behind those big trees is the apartment building I lived in from when I was 2yo until I was 8.

This is rotated just a little more to the left.



It shows the field between our yard and my parent's house. The burn pile is down in the middle, and the little white speck is my dad's goat, Nanny. She lives in the doghouse in the middle of the field.

This is the last photo in the tour of our neighborhood.



The white speck in the upper right hand corner is my mom and dad's house. I lived there for the rest of the time until I went to college. It's nice that my kids will be running the same dirt as I did, only I didn't really run in the dirt that much.

Anyway, this has been your tour of our garden and our neighborhood.

See ya!