Garden has squash galore (我們的花園到處都是瓜)

Our garden has squash/gourd galore (我們的花園到都是瓜). Of course, you have to look for them as they tend to hide under the lush leaves. The photos show Japanese pumpkin or “kabuja” (曰本南瓜), Italian squash (義大利蘆葫瓜), American butternut squash (美國冬天瓜), Taiwanese squash (台灣南瓜) and watermelon—one cannot say there is no international flavor in our garden.
There are two more fools (還有兩個儍瓜)—photos shows one fool only—constantly working in the garden. This post is protesting how Chinese language treats the squash/gourd unfairly. I wrote a series of how English language often refers animals in a negative or unflattering way. Chinese shares the same guilt. The squah/gourd comes in all kinds of shapes and forms; they may not look particularly intelligent, but they certainly do not look like a 儍瓜 (fool).

For my American friends: the 瓜 (squash/gourd) in Chinese 儍瓜 (fool) is the same 瓜 (squash/gourd) in our garden.