duck-shaped pain

A couple of inches last night, a sprinkling this morning. Everything sticky, sodden and sullen.

However, not everyone is dismayed. Some things out there actually like the rain.

I went out on the deck this morning to examine the plants, and found that my normally obstinate and non-productive eggplant plant had changed its mind sometime during the night.

Where there was once only a leaf, there is now a little purple flower. A blossom. A pre-eggplant.

Whether this actually develops into an eggplant [1] remains to be seen. Later developments will be reported.

[1] At last notice, eggplants of the sort this plant is supposed to grow were selling at the farmers' market for three for a dollar. The seeds for this plant alone cost more than that � not to mention the pot and the soil and the brow furrowing that was involved. Will it be worth it in the end? Who knows.

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