another ending ( almost )

it has been cold...actually unseasonably cold for this early in november...

a bit over two weeks ago the bees were still busily mugging the marigolds out front...

things have changed...out back as well...

the cold has induced the northern tepehaun teocintli ears to open and begin to shatter even though the bulk of the seed is still green...

i have collected some however i am skeptical of its viability...

the zea mays mexicana began to shatter long before any cold settled in...

and there are still a multiplicity of green ears on those plants as well...

still, even this late they are producing mature seed...so i will be going over the ears for a bit yet (and hence the "almost" in the header ) to add as many as possible to the seven hundred or so seeds i have already brought in...things are slowing out there...i doubt they will stop completely...more as it comes up.