eleusinian mysteries

the wheat, despite being battered down in a corner by something ( critter? ) is coming out in ears of grain...soon enough it will be time to put out the bird tape to discourage the starlings and any other avian predator...there will be "bread from scratch" for Jean and i yet...the last three photos are zea morphology..the first of the three is the "wild and weedy" ancestor teosinte...the second is bear paw maize in the back yard and the last is some dense yellow #2 in the field behind the big box store...stay tuned to see the divergence in development.