Oddities in my garden

I was pulling weeds from around my poor, beleaguered tomato plant 
this morning and found this:

A prickly pear?


A mutant vegetable?


An iPod?


I don't know, but I love how you never know what you'll find when you're making room for new growth.




Right afterward, I spotted this interesting guy on my gate post:

Maybe he likes the oddities in my garden.