What I didn't tell you is that the school also has an extensive vegetable and flower garden, too. I've been admiring it as I pass by on my daily walks with the pugs.
It began modestly enough, just a couple of plots of radishes and marigolds. But in short order, it has grown to include a number of raised beds filled with vegetables and flowers...
...meandering paths and a teepee made of huge branches, burlap, and quick-growing beans clambering up the burlap...
Here is Pao, posing next to the garden's two red wheelbarrows, which get a lot of use:
The garden includes a professional-looking, stainless-steel, triple-bowl outdoors sink. Check out the hand-painted artwork hanging above it. Nice!
Speaking of hand-painted, there's a sweet sign hung in the garden area. If you squint your eyes a bit, it looks like the palette of Monet's Water Lilies series:
Of course, I am charmed by the blue flowers, mini blue gazing balls, and the adorable little blue plastic chairs:
The little blue chairs are everywhere in the garden...
...lined up for little gardeners-in-training, ready to learn important lessons about soil and water and sun, and how veggies don't come from shrink-wrapped packages...
But instead from the wonderful work of their own small hands, in partnership with Nature.
A wealth of lessons lies in a garden, ready for anybody...
...who is wise enough to stop and listen and learn.
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