This is my first honest-to-goodness garden, and believe it or not, it's thriving!

Indulge me here, just a bit, by giving a shout-out to my first ripe tomato. Ah, summer harvest! How I savor this time of year. Tasty daily salads. Little hands combing pea vines for a sugar-snap snack. I wonder how many raspberries will ripen, pink and unscathed, before the kids get to them first? Ha! No better way to get them stoked about local, healthy grubs, I guess.

Little herb garden in front