asparagus, bird tape, and winter wheat

another warm, windy day here so after i watered here at home i went out to campus again this morning to keep things moist...along with planting some spaghetti and acorn squash i srtung some more bird tape...like a scarecrow that doesn't move, bird tape in the same place eventually loses its impact so i changed it up a bit to throw the wheat eating starlings off ( i could hear them scolding me as i worked and i sympathize with their need to make a living...but it's my wheat and this is an experiment in human intervention...it may be dangerous to match wits with birds in public...but it is necessary )...we'll see if it has any impact on what's left to harvest...the third photo is of an asparagus spear that is fully "ferned" and the fourth is of one well on its way...the asparagus season is pretty much done as they get to be fairly woody when it gets warm...i will be staking them all up as the grow to keep them off the ground and out form under the mower...the bottom photo is of some zea diploperennis...the obligatory, almost totemic, teosinte