Garden’s first cucumber.
Behold, a cucumber! Tomatoes? Still not tomatoing. But we have a couple of cucumbers coming through. We’re using a method my dad recommended (and some fencing he gave us) to make picking easier. There will be cucumbers and probably squash and hopefully tomatoes.
Dawn Shepherd is a writer, a professor emeritus of writing studies, and an enthusiastic amateur of many things. After stepping away from higher education in 2025 to pursue a cross-country van journey and travels through Spain, she is currently exploring the art of the deliberate return. Through dispatches, sketches, and snapshots, she documents the magic of everyday life. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she’s figuring it all out. Probably. Maybe.
