Wild Card/Thursday — 8.21.14

I didn’t plant my tomatoes/squash/cucumbers/basil, etc., until I returned from a California vacay in June. Yet, I’m harvesting a bumper crop now. Tomatoes galore. Ditto for cucumbers. I may need to make pesto this weekend. The garden harvest adds spice — literally — to the dog days of summer. Now for today’s Wild Card …