EL JARDIN

It looks like we'll have tomatoes earlier than ever before:

The plants all flowering or budding.  This is one of the zebras:

There's a little tomato on this Mexican Midget, but you can't see it here:

Marigolds flank the tomatoes:

Cucumbers are doing well with some stray lettuce plants in their midst:

A row of lettuce of a different variety:

Fennel and rosemary with sunflowers in the background:

My sister gave me some zinnia seeds.  They've sprouted:

We're digging holes for the compost at present:

Last week Trini told me his 26 year-old daughter was in the hospital having an operation to remove a tumor.  Ovarian cancer.  This morning Sergio showed up and said she had died last night.  The funeral service is this morning at 9 in Colón.  We're trying to figure out what to do to show our sympathy.