change

yesterday there was snow on the teocintli...

today it's long gone...

and the snow that was on the winter rye...

has been replaced by some of the three quarters of an inch of rain that has fallen here so far today ( once again leaving the winter wheat and rye without snow cover of any sort )...

rain because it is the degrees above freezing today...a shade above "average" and nowhere near either record...middling kind of data...

i took out the bamboo i had used to support the toecintli and it immediately fell over..which is what it wanted to do all along which is why i interfered with the bamboo in the first place...there are still seeds in some of those ears i purposely left out as i harvested...i am uncertain of the viability...however it would be gratifying to have some naturally germinated grasses next spring...we will see..we will not get our hopes up...

we do have fine hopes for the egyptian walking onions that are sheltering under the winter vetch though...they continue to work on producing shoots and on taking root...december or not...winter has been different the past few years with december being a cold month and then the new year seeing a gradual warming into a fairly early spring...this year the month seems indecisive and it is over without any sort of real accumulation of snow...the few there have been have all been less than an inch and what there is ahead is unseen in terms of precipitation..so the end of the year finds the yard at work on next year...nothing odd in that...if you look closely enough it never really stops...there will be green out there all winter and into spring..the onions and berries find it necessary.