overnight

after i was finished helping plant geraniums at the iu northwest community garden today ( top photo ) i strolled over to the perennial garden project just to have a look...not expecting much since i was there yesterday evening but the garden always has a surprise or two to pull...the hopi blue maize is in full flower but what caught my eye was the fact that one of the the nascent ears had produced a tassel...i asked myself how i had missed that yesterday but a review of the photos from yesterday evening shows no sign of a tassel anywhere so it appeared in the matter of about sixteen hours..well..okay..humans can accomplish a lot ( good or bad ) in sixteen hours...why not maize? it's a hard working plant...so far so good for both gardens everything in the community garden seems on schedule despite the dry weather...and while the perennials are still behaving oddly ( or, at least, differently ) compared to the last two seasons i believe things will turn out well...whatever happens it's sure to be posted here.