Garden Mouse

This is the last of the zucchini! I'll be glad to see the plant go. Most of them are now way past their prime, except for the small tomatoes, which badly need to be picked and consumed.  I'll have to do something about that today. They are yellow when ripe, and sweet and delicious.

 It has been obvious for a while that a mouse lives in the garden.  I even saw it once.  The marks on this zucchini are teeth marks!  It makes me smile to imagine what a happy mouse it must have been (be?) gnawing away busily on a delicious dark green fruit.    The teeth marks speak to me of optimism,  a creature trying to consume a vegetable which must be five times its size.  You could feed a lot of mice with that zucchini!

I think the people have probably had enough!