the beans are done...the milkweed isn't

the season for the beans in the field next to the supermarket is all but done...the canopy of green leaves has shriveled up...disappeared...

and from any angle you care to take there are a lot of them...which could be an issue since the price per metric ton has dropped another $2.92 since i last blogged about this two weeks ago...i can hear the plaintiff wail of an eroding rural base...and with good cause...

there is still quite a bit of green sticking up above the finished beans...what some may call "weeds"...who knows what beneficial insects they may attract however...it's always more complex than good plant-bad plant...

there is a fair amount of volunteer dense yellow #2 both sticking above the beans and dying back with them...it does not seem to have had the best of seasons in yield terms...the best that can be said is it tried...

and the titular milkweed is not done...the pods are still green...or, at least, they have not dried out...i am keeping an eye on these..planning to harvest some seed and plant it around the yard as a way station for monarchs..had their caterpillars in the butterfly weed this past season...hoping to find more next.