escape!!

another seven tenths of an inch of rain over night brings us to 9.8" for the month to dare...fully a quarter of the yearly average precipitation here in a month...which doesn't mean it couldn't dry out catastrophically over the next three...i am skeptical of that however...it has stalled industrial farming here...but it hasn't stalled the back yard...

the walking onions were pretty much been green all winter and have been going strong since early march...they are preparing to both flower and produce aerial bulbs...walking by august or so...

the concord grapes are chugging away and throwing out new tendrils to latch onto last year's anchors...

the rye is flowering...

and more ears of wheat are emerging...

the wild strawberry blooms are vanishing...because they are metamorphosing...

into the berries they were meant to become...

i count at least thirty-four stolons diving over the side of the bed...making a break to the north...why?

the way south is thoroughly blocked...the berries are relentless colonizers ( remind me to throw in a few photos of the east bed they share with only the deeply rooted and indifferent asparagus some time )...they are pragmatic colonizers as well who will secure the northern reaches of the south side of the house at the expense of the lemon balm ( no mean colonizer itself )...the donnybrook continues.