New Yorker Caption Contest #482

What My Garden Looks Like Now

These are a bunch of pictures I took today.

This is an Amaranthus called 'Love Lies Bleeding.'

I grow them every year.  They're annuals. Everything you see is the volunteers I let through.

They've spread everywhere. I let some through, but I pull up most as weeds.

My blackberries are starting to ripen.  

This is one of the real success stories of my garden. They're so sweet and prolific.

I've got a patch of sunflowers that may be as much as ten feet tall.

They're volunteers from last year crop which were specialty seeds that were red rather than yellow. This year, most were yellow with only a few nice and red like this one.

This is my second year growing onions.  I had no idea they were so interesting and beautiful.  I treat them like ornamental flowers, but they're really just regular yellow onions.

I've got an artichoke coming up.

 And this is just a pretty picture.

Mario Savio

I was watching a really great PBS documentary on the year 1964, and the part about the Berkley Free Speech movement with inspiring.  I had to grab this clip of Mario Savio speaking.