peculiar weather, no? the top and bottom photos are of the winter wheat in the bed in my back yard...it is still growing and has exceeded eight inches in height...in the tradition of random firefox uploads to blogger, the third photo is of a clump of winter wheat on campus that i took on november fourth...the second photo is of the same clump that i took on campus this morning...the wheat hasn't gained much in height but is has tillered considerably in the last couple of month....you can actually see dormancy creeping in around the base of the wheat, but it isn't hibernating yet...neither, for that matter, is the grass on campus...it is green and photosynthesizing away...fifty degrees on january sixth aint natural...there are doubtlessly folks out there who fervently hope we get away without a winter this year...and i have seen some mild winters here in the last decade ( although not the past few years )...it hasn't even gotten cold enough for me to test out my fabric lined cache pit for jerusalem artichokes yet...nature has me in some suspense over what will happen next...and what sort of impact it will have on the spring season...last year was a cold spring and everything but the elephant garlic was alte in coming out of dormancy...something out of the ordinary, like an april snow could be a problem for planting things like red nordlands.
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