teosinte in winter

much like last year, february has brought significant snowfall...

and the teosinte ears i did not harvest have long since shattered leaving empty husks...

while the termometers do not agree exactly they concur it is warmer here than it has been lately...

the snow on the bee house is melting...four hundred cocoons coming in june...should be ready by then...

the rye and wheat beds now have ample snow cover...spring will tell if it came in time for the wheat...the rye, i believe, will be fine...

down in the basement the spuds are looking verdant...

and as dificult as it may be to discern from this photo, there are multiple rye plants with third leaves...everything down there is "leggy"...expending energy in trying to reach the light...one suspects, as usual in this unnatural environment, little forthcoming in the way of production of anything beyond as much height as they can possibly generate...

and that's a wooden duck in the kitchen...it's february...things are slow.