Gifts from the past

I am a kind of passive gardener. When edible things appear, I take advantage. But I like the old proverb "Nut trees are gifts from the past; plant them as gifts to the future," so I do set things growing that have little chance of doing much for me.

These are gifts along those lines.

The three garlics came up in my community-garden plot this year, left invisibly by last year's plot holder but already coming up when I got the plot in June.

The two apples are the first pickings this year from an old tree at the fence in our back yard, planted there, perhaps accidentally, sixty or seventy years ago.