July 31 Up the garden path

Whew, can't wax in the manner of no brain , no pain. CBC, with its present news of the downing of MH17, the Middle East and Ukraine and, to increase the discomfort, its presentation of reflections on WWI and WWII, does not insulate our summer. Hope CBC will not suffer further shrinkage. With that thought I am going to visit and listen to the garden.

I have a good weeder and by now the plants have grown much more than as shown in the photo. The weeder's work from another angle in the photo below.

We planted garlic and, as novices, we follow the plants' development with interest. We knew that garlic bulbs develop under ground but were charmed by the plants' aerial display.

To name these garlic necks we google and somehow were led up the garden path to Voltaire's real name.

Berry Busy

There like garnet red gems, winking among the green leaves, are the strawberries.                                                                                       

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