The leaves of the squash plants are absolutely huge. I've been looking for zucchini, but unable to find it. I have seen lots of blossoms but not any fruit. Then yesterday I went searching again, planning to at least bring in a huge bunch of lettuce, which I can see is ripe and ready. I pushed apart the zucchini leaves to glance inside. I was stunned at what I saw. There was an enormous zucchini staring back at me accusingly, as if to ask 'where have you been'? It had grown to be a foot and a half long and five or six inches around. And yet despite looking, I had not seen it.
After that, I collected about a dozen other zucchini of a more reasonable, edible size. I was somewhat mystified as to how I had missed seeing them before. Gerry had looked too, and his vision was no better than mine. Could all those have appeared overnight? Doubtful!
I guess the lesson for me was how we can look without really paying attention, listen without really hearing. Perhaps most of the time there are no earth shattering consequences for that. But sometimes there might be. For the one giant zucchini, it was too far gone.
It does make me wonder what else I might not be noticing, before its too late!
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