The Greater Good

Well, it's pouring rain here in Cape Cod, so I thought I'd wrap up this post I started.

The sad news is that the cucumbers are gone. The plants were getting wiltier and wiltier and kind of sick-looking, and the few remaining cucumbers were all twisted:





Worse, it looked like it was spreading to the adjacent eggplant, and possibly across the path to the cantaloupes. Since those are in the same family, they share a lot of diseases. So the cucumbers had to go. I pulled them all out - I had to! - but I felt really bad.

So I took some pictures of soybeans, Mexican sunflowers, and harvested stuff to remind myself of the utilitarian principles underlying my decision.





Thank you, Mr. Bentham.