TEOSINTE

some days can go from pure evil to great in the matter of the time it takes to stop and ponder something enjoyable...and i am geeked tonight...despite all the time pressure that life is delivering at the moment i snuck n a visit to the campus garden this evening after work...about ten minutes worth...it's coming along eerily early for the end of winter...the winter wheat is filling in and in the second photo you can see how the gamagrass is greening up ( it is weird to see chlorophyll coming up in what you would have taken for dead grass a couple of weeks ago )..all good things...but what geeked me was when i took a second look at the old zea diploperennis roots to see if i was imagining the green i saw saturday...nope folks i'm not hallucinating...new growth...cool...so i came home after a couple of more stops and what awaits me in the back? three more teosinte plants up and running..geek city..i have frost cloth...cold is now the enemy...and the kicker of the day is that jesse schartner form the potato introduction station in sturgeon bay wisconsin sent me an email saying all the germplasm i requested is available...including the primitive cultivar..this is just too cool.