quiet thursday evening

there is always movement in the yard...but sometimes it is barely discernible...there is a need to pay attention...to be native to the yard and it's not always a simple thing to do...changes can be subtle ( and i was never very good with subtle ) to the point of being overlooked...i am not an extraordinarily gifted gardener but i do pay very close attention to a number of plants and plant families i have become attached to...i notice changes in those at least...the corn in a bucket project is moving along ( first photo )..the stalks are all showing male flowers ( second ) and the female flowers have appeared on the ears ( third) soon enough there will be kernels...the teosinte has deployed many male flowers:

however there are no females to be seen...a waiting game is being played...across the yard the stems feeding some of the potato fuits have died back ( fourth ) signaling the time to harvest has come...they are in a paper bag now softening prior to being processed...there will be more on that along with the processing of their cousins the carolina horse nettle fruits later...shifting back to teosinte, it is doing well however it is not nearly as tall as it was last season...it has been an odd summer...alternately very wet or dry...hot or cool...and, perhaps, the oscillations have the plants perturbed...still they are fine( fifth ) and i threw something in to provide scale ( sixth )...there will be a loud whoop when the first teosinte silks emerge...stay tuned.