Field Tasseling, Earliest Corn Drying

Jaime Lopez -- whose photos sometimes accompany the entries in this blog -- is also the Not A Cornfield gardener. His responsibilities include tending the cornfield's hand-planted "eye." This morning, Lopez delivered a general update on the progress of the field at large, and the "eye" in general.

"As we enter [deeper into the] month of October," Lopez said, "the Cornfield has gone through yet another transformation. The entire field is now tasseling and the air is full of pollen. At the "eye," a visitor can at once witness all the corn's stages of development, from seedlings to developing plants to fully ripe and harvest-able ears of corn."

Lopez noted that some of the corn planted in the "eye" on June 25 is now drying, harvested; meanwhile, the seeds planted nearby as recently as September are still small, and likely, in Lopez's estimation, to remain that way.

The photograph above fits in the former category.