storm

i was at work this morning a bit after seven when the sky turned black and bruised and we had some old fashioned horizontal rain and the attendant power outages...so after work i drove over to campus to see if everything was alright ...fortunately it was ( the i u northwest community garden came through fine as well ) and as a bonus both the larger hopi blue maize plants have begun to flower so if it all goes well there will be ears of blue corn down the road...the eastern gamagrass continues to develop new proaxes and cycle them through reproduction...some are flowering ( forth photo ) and some are hardening and shattering ( fifth photo )...i have to wonder how many seeds scattered in the wind this morning and how many of those i have missed will actually germinate...when i planted gamagrass in the autumn ( november actually )of 2009 i put in thirty seeds and three germinated...ten percent viability...apparently that's enough...they aren't going anywhere unless someone takes a bush hog to them