I say tomato

That was quick. It was just a week or so ago that we planted the tomato seedlings, and this morning m and I noticed that we already had a couple of new friends. The garden is small: tomatoes (several kinds), zucchini, green, yellow and red peppers, shishito, shiso, cucumbers, goya (the bitter Okinawan gourd), garlic, and some eggplant. Almost everything has already started to flower, since the weather has been so sunny recently. In Tokyo, vegetable prices are high thanks to the cold spring, but the open markets down here are far cheaper. We got a whole bunch of radishes for ¥100 the other day from a roadside stall and they were so sweet that we went back for more but they were sold out. Cabbage is a spring specialty of this area, along with the Miura daikon, and they're so cheap and huge and sweet that M has found all kinds of ways to cook--woooooooooooh a kite (the hawk, not the toy) with a wingspan of about a meter just caught a perfect wind right outside my window and was hovering motionless for about 10 seconds--them (the cabbages, not the kite).

The first eggplant flower.