While this year’s vegetable garden was decimated by extreme heat waves, maturing fruit trees and a robust collection of flowering perennials persevered to offer seasonal interest. This year’s edible harvest included:
- One dozen Delicata Squash
- Two dozen Pattypan Squash
- Two zucchinis
- Seven pumpkins
- Four large butternut squashes
- Three pints of snap peas
- One dozen small yellow onions
- Several cloves of garlic
- One dozen bell peppers
- Several dozen jalapeno peppers
- Three dozen tomatoes, less than a quarter of the usual harvest
- A couple pints of raspberries
- Twenty Asian pears
- Six dozen apples
- Around 120 large persimmons
Magnolia leaves collect cones of snow and ice. 
Snow dusts a battered masonry retaining wall. 
Lupine leaves emerge from hail-dusted soil. 
Fragrant white lilac. 
Apple flowers. 
Purple lilac. 
Soggy shrub-form vine maple. 
Ball of flowering spurge. 
Red and white striped columbine. 
Salmon azalea in front of a blue wall. 
Purple rhododendron buds. 
Large pink peonies. 
Purple rhododendron. 
Raindrops on a rose bud. 
Rain-soaked rose. 
Rain-dusted lupine leaves. 
Emerging iris bud. 
Iris flower. 
Persimmon buds. 
Persimmon flowers. 
Snap peas. 
Borage flowers amongst a mature lavender specimen. 
Raspberries along a blue wall. 
Privet flowers. 
Blue hydrangea. 
Orange lilies. 
Flowering mustard greens. 
Romanesco broccoli. 
Early Stupice tomatoes. 
Field of pumpkin leaves. 
Emerging Pattypan flowers and squash. 
Large purple clematis flowers. 
Mixed-size Pattypan Squash. 
Daisies. 
Ripe Pattypan Squash. 
Pale green pumpkin. 
Pumpkin leaves and flowers. 
Roses 
Green pumpkin amongst spent flowers. 
Blackberries 
Ripening pumpkin. 
A young green pumpkin. 
Pale yellow sunflower over a blue wall. 
Yellow delicious apples on an espalier tree. 
Pair of orange sunflowers. 
Nearly-ripe small sugar pumpkin. 
Orange sunflowers in the vegetable garden. 
Ripening Purple Cherokee tomatoes. 
A pair of enormous yellow sunflowers. 
Ripening orange tomatoes. 
Ripening grapes. 
Orange sunflower in the vegetable garden. 
A twelve-foot sunflower stalk. 
Yellow sunflower on a tall stalk. 
Mixed harvest of tomatoes, squash, onions, and peppers. 
Small yellow sunflower. 
Flowering sedum. 
Squirrel on sunflower stalk. 
Harvest of apples and Asian pears. 
Bell peppers. 
Late-ripening jalapenos 
Bell peppers. 
Pumpkin harvest. 
Rain-soaked vine maple leaves. 
Harvest of peppers and green tomatoes. 
Frost-dusted persimmons. 
Dozens of orange persimmons ripen on a maturing tree. 
Squirrel feasting on ripe persimmons. 
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