From Houston

Arrived in Houston for the Vision Source annual meeting. Below is a photo taken from my room-- that is Minute Maid Park in the background, and the convention center on the right, where I spent 3 days with vendors and speakers learning about and seeing the very latest in eyecare technology. It was a great meeting!

Before leaving for Houston, early Wednesday morning, April 13th, I picked 4 cukes and 3 zucchinis, and snapped this photo:

That brings the total to 32 cukes and 5 zucchinis thus far, and we've only been picking cukes for about 1 1/2 weeks! The zukes are just getting started. I watered everything in this Wed. morning, prior to my being out of town until the 17th--thanks to our neighbors Trish and Jeff and Janice for offering to keep an eye on the garden while I was out of town.

I also noticed that one of the tomatoes on the Brandy Boy--the large heirloom tomato plant with the huge potato leaves, was starting to show the earliest stage of ripening. I hated to leave it and go out of town,
but I did at least snap this photo--this is the first that I saw a large tomato ripening in our garden!

And with this photo I loaded the freshly picked produce into a couple of bags to be put into my Dad's carry on. He was to transport the veggies up to Albany as he was on a visit the same day as I was traveling to Houston. While in Houston, at the Lenyrd Skynyrd concert, I received this very colorful photo of the grilled squash that my sister served for dinner that evening.