suburban industrial beans

i had a light afternoon agenda so i took a walk down by deep river ( which is a counter-intuitive name for it at the moment...snag river might be more like it )

on the way home i noticed that the industrial beans were beginning to finish up pout in the fields...

so i stopped off at the field behind the big box stores ( which is stil for sale by the by...property taxing agriculture out of business in favor of developers...however we need to leave that behind lest we carom off into a rant about "new urbanism" being a cover for gentrifying developers )...

the leaves on the plants were ranging from green to yellow to...

to brown, dead detritus on the ground...

which left the finished pods alone on the stalks which, i am assuming, is a trait selected ( if not engineered ) for to simplify the harvest which should begin reasonably soon...

i have grown a selection fo pole and bush beans over the years an i cannot recall the leaves dropping off to leave behind harvestable beans...then again the beans i grew were in production continuously all season and not feedstock designed to be harvested all at once