it is a holiday weekend...i am not working ( if you can call what i am doing work ) so i had some time to stop and look around...and things are coming along fairly well in spite of a dearth of precipiataion...they tell me it is to be an "el nino" summer and the forecasts are contradictory at best and the emprical evidence ( so far ) puts the lie to most of them...the old farmers almanac calls for a hot and wet summer here...the national weather service says hot and about normal precipitation over the next few months... while the national drought monitor calls the area "abnormally dry" and that i will subscribe to given what is up in my back yard which is watering since there hasn't been much of anything like rain so far this month ( and it is getting late )...however it turns out, the tesointe i have planted so far ( more on the way ) is definitely looking corny as it leafs...
the dryad's saddles are back on the old dead elm...
the winter wheat on the compost pile has broken out in flowers...elusinian mysteries next up...
even the wheat in the dismal wheat bed is blooming...some seed for a bed somewhere in the fall...however not in this bed...
awns are beginning to show on the black tipped wheat..a "decorative grass" you could eat...
the spuds in containers out by the teosinte are fine...
and some of the spuds i planted in the dismal wheat bed have begun to tentatively sprout leaves...
the asparagus i have not harvested has "ferned" and has begun to flower...perhaps some berries as the season progresses ( i have seen many bees [ bumble only ] so far this season...none of them seem willing to haold still long enough for a photograph...i have leaf cutters arriving in about two weeks...there will be photos then...and more pollenators )...
the strawberries are producing...
drupes are appearing on the mulberry trees...
and there are clear signs of grapes out by the fir trees...so far so good...it's early yet though...we'll see how it goes.
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