meteorological autumn

autumn in the garden...the chinese yams in the top photo have started to turn and they will be ready to harvest soon...the zea diploperennis in the second photo still geeks me out...so much like maize that the connection couldn't be much more obvious...the jerusalem artichokes in the third photo continue their weird behavior this season...floweting and dying back simultaneously....the fourth photo is just another zea family portrait, from the left, northern tepehuan teosinte, zea diploperennis, and the pretty dead hopi blue maize...the last photo is yet another flowering proaxe on the eastern gamagrass...the season is winding down and there jsut a bit of fall planting to do for next season and a tuber harvest before the mulch goes down...have ti finish this year to begin the next.