it is the thirteenth of june and the blooms on the hawthorn have begin to turn brown and die back...
so far this year i have found two bees i the tree...this one and one that would not hold still for a portrait...i don't doubt there were more, however in the past two years when i went out here i found more bees than i could count or photograph at any given time of day...not so this season and it bothers me...
where i have been finding them with more regularity is in the winter vetch...okay..a bloom is a bloom and we all have preferences...even there though they seem pretty sparse...few and at fairly long intervals...there are many flowers in the yard and last season the bees seemed to favor the marigolds and the jerusalem artichokes once the hawthorn faded...we will see if their numbers increase or if the sightings remain spare...
there is other life out there searching for sustenance...this one a bit more carnivorous...
elsewhere things are popping up and carrying on...found some volunteer tomatoes today...i am wagering they are cherry tomatoes...once you plant those they never seem to vanish...
the asparagus seedlings are coming along...the one that is obviously of the purple variety is poking along while its container mate has begun to "fern" and already has put up a second spear to feed the roots...this is microcosm by the by..the tallest seedling is a mere inch and a half which should give some scale tot he other plant life that is growing in there...
the mashua is still very small as well...and producing more leaves...there will be vines soon enough...
the first potato flower of the season has opened...
the winter rye has been done with flowering for a few weeks now and has begun to ripen...harvest in mid-july or so...
flowers and aerial bulbs on the "walking" onions...
and the maize in my yard are not volunteers...i pressed them into service.
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