early july yard

my back yard received half an inch of rain yesterday...

and temperatures are "seasonable" so after i got home from work i had a look around the back yard...

the maize is robust and more than "knee high" as of the second day of the month ( so is most of the dense yellow #2 out in the industrial fields by the by )...

some of its "wild and weedy ancestor" teosinte is next to it...not quite as tall...it isn't domesticated and "improved"...still it is looking sturdy...

the asparagus is producing "berries"...

the rye is looking blonder and i can see individual grains...

there's still some green out there though so perhaps another week before harvest...

the surprise grape vine is doing well...

and is getting on with the busines of attaching itself to the fence rather than "native growth" attached to the fence...we are pleased...

finally, bee moms have been diligently gathering pollen and nesting materials, laying eggs, and plugging tubes...

natural craftswomen...

this weathered old bee house ( and please not this is a photo from four days ago i was remiss today ) has twenty-eight plugged tubes of bee larvae and i counted three in the newer bee house just now...the best season on record for bee house useage...i left them both out all winter and the weathering seems to have helped...perhaps the girls appreciate sabi.