bees, spuds, drupes

the leaf cutters are showing no sign of hatching out...which is distressing but understandable given that in nearly mid june we have early may temperatures going on and they do not like sub seventy ( fahrenheit ) weather...we wait...impatiently but we wait...

the hawthorn is blooming and you can smell it for hundreds of yards and i was becoming concerned that all i was seeing on it was flies...

that concern is somewhat assuaged this evening as i found fully two individual social bees in the tree...two bees is not many...it is considerably better than none...

i hounded them all through the tree however a fairly stiff breeze that moved the branches at inopportune moments made a mockery of some of my photographic attempts...still.. a few came out...

one of the bison spuds i started in the basement has finished...it rendered eight new potato sized spuds...which i have a use for and will probably act on...there are two more that are contemporary with this one that will doubtlessly finish soon as well...the government spuds are booming along and the bisons i just planted last week have not come into leaf just yet...the weather is not cooperating...

lastly it is almost mid-june and there are mulberries in the works...the drupes are green right now...soon enough they will be dark ripe and sweet...the birds will be spreading seeds all over the place...dna is relentless and the ways it reproduces itself are manifold...from clones to stolons to rhizomes to seeds...all in the back yard.