20 days ago I departed on a quick morning tour of our garden with my camera in tow. I had a some time at home alone and a walk around to check out the changes felt like a beautiful way to enjoy it.
I have been enraptured by the speed at which Mother Nature can create...the now-spent bloom on the left was a bud 20 days ago...
...a cluster of baby apples - a sweet group of bright fuschia-coloured buds, petals tightly packed...
...very clearly we see miniature pears now - WOW!
and the base of the crumpling quince blossom swells now with a small, fuzzy quince fruit...
...not as pretty-looking yet - never-the-less the promise of succulent beauty is here - these berry blossoms are busy pushing forth berries...
...whilst the very subject of my initial wonder - this end of the grapevine has unfolded no less than 7 leaves and 2 bunches of grapes so far from that tiny, furry first sprout - only 20 days ago!
the tiny fig is now the size of a golf-ball and has a proportionally-large canopy for protection...
...a strong theme for these immature fruits - the two plums are considerably bigger, as is their soft bright leafy shelter, seemingly fluffing out all about them...
...I nearly didn't find the same cluster of sly blackcurrants, now almost entirely hidden...
...last for this morning's walk were the strawberries - and I'm determined to believe there IS a hint of blush there!
I've truly experienced awe and wonder while recording these small doings in our own garden - there is no doubt in my mind a divine creative energy exists.
When I posted 20 days ago, it was a couple of days shy of the Spring
Equinox - and it truly has felt as if Mother Nature has a countdown
going to get everything grown to complete perfection in the 182.5 days
until the Autumn Equinox.
Wow you are so much ahead of us. My flowers all got frozen in a frost two nights ago, strawberries are ok but the rest sucks
ReplyDeletefrost is such a gamble, isn't it? We've no apricots because of an ill-timed frost and I tentatively put (large) zucchini seedlings in more than a month ago, fingers-crossed that they would not succumb to a bad late frost. We will be gardening in Christchurch from next year, so that will be interesting and a whole other 'thing' to learn and understand, I'm sure...SNOW!!
DeleteLOL! just saw you are from Kaiapoi! :)
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