winter's last gasp in the pgp

went out to campus to check out the calm before the storm that will be spring this year...it is quiet in the garden but that won't last...spring is a time of movement and this one will be chock full of it...you might not perceive it as a possibility at this particular moment...true, the mulch covers are still down on the teosinte and the asparagus but that will change by the end of the month....and there are still silks attached to the teosinte ears but they shattered long ago and if the basement seed is any sort of indicator there should be another generation of the annual strain already to go...the intermediate wheat grass has reached a state of complete dormancy...but there are pastel streaks of chlorophyll in the eastern gamagrass and that will only increase over the next couple of months...there's snow this morning but it cannot last...temperatures above freezing in the day and below at night signal maple syrup time...asparagus is not far behind.