New Babies

JJ-aka-PP holds her friend's baby gosling, a few weeks old. It'll be cute for a few more weeks and then look out. You can see the parents in the background, gathering around their gander mullah taking out a fatwa on Jenny's rear end.



The first baby pippin apples are sizing up in the Great Plotnik Apple Orchard, and tiny, black onion seeds are hiding in these pretty onion seed caps.



The apples will go from red to green immediately and stay that way as they grow. When they are ripe they will be green with splashes of red across the surface. The onions, when fully grown, would be red onions if Plotnik didn't plant them only to use as scallions, since it's not really hot enough for the onions to grow to useful size in the Saint Plotniko Summer Fogbelt.



Above you see a Canary Island Date Palm. There is a huge one growing in the front yard of a house across from Walgreen's on 25th at Castro. That house was on the Garden Tour last Saturday and the guys who own it pulled out a few skinny chutes that had volunteered from seeds. Plot put them in a pot to see what happens. The Great Plotnik World Headquarters will need some renovation when these babies grow up.