Mantis sightings

Here are pictures of two praying mantises I encountered in the garden this week.

The green one was about half the size of the tan one - that probably means the tan one is a female.
Now if only that tomato under the female would turn red-- I have hundreds of tomatoes on my plants, but none are ripening yet!

Fun squash pics and garlic and onion harvest

I know I already wrote about Tromboncino, but here's one last pic from this morning:

And check out the variation in colors and shape (one double, too) in this selection of fruit from Sunburst pattypan squash:

I have been watching the onions and garlic carefully for signs of maturity, and finally dug the  yellow onions and  hardneck garlic this week. They are drying in the garage because we've had a lot of pop up thunderstorms recently, though nothing like the wild storms the rest of the country has experienced this summer.

The red onions are still actively growing. I wonder how much longer they'll go?