how's the weather?

well...i have seen better...the temperature is hanging right around freezing...a touch above perhaps...the deck in front of my house is icy...but the roads are not...probably because they are salted to an evil extent ( the sides of my truck tell me so )...and the temperature has had an impact on the snow pack on my overwintering beds...

there wasn't much green showing in the rye bed yesterday and there isn't much today either despite the fact that it has lost .9375 of an inch of snow cover since yesterday...

there was always green showing in the wheat bed and there is a bit more today because, in an unexpected bit of symmetry given the micro climates i discover in my yard, it to has lost .9375 of an inch of snow...there must be a consistency of temperature out there today...so we still have the requisite four inches of cover on both beds...hoping it holds...

the winds of the past few days have left a considerable number of teocintli seeds undisturbed...there are still multiple ears that are unopened and intact...the seed must be of suspect viability...i imagine the late emerging ears which were stilol green at the first hard frost are what is left...

the egyptian walking onions are looking a bit battered by recent events...they are also still defiantly green...i will be interested to see what the areal bulbs have been up to while under cover...

finally...a photo of deep river in winter...this was yesterday...sunny...with a very cold wind.