One of my favourite garden treats is a Cape Gooseberry, Psysalis peruviana. It is part of the Nightshade family.
I go hunting often for it, looking for the ghostly pods, today I found some lying around in the freshly cleared vege patch. Before scoffing them all, like a vitamin c starved lunatic, I took some pics.
It is a beautiful plant. Skeletal in its decaying casing-it holds the seeds to new life within. The beginnings and the ends. all together. very clever and it’s yummy
LIFE FORCE
by Geraldine Bigelow
“…..I move with the memory
of all I pass
the secret folds of middle earth
and run them through the field of Man
of great beast
and flirtatious bird
seeking out myself
I spray forth
taking the wind
and its chiming message
down to the pool of water
where all life has gathered.”
two hands together 