Back roads of Morrow County Update:
I
should have purchased this year's Farmers' Almanac. It would have cured
my FAS I'm sure. There is no way they got the weather predictions for
this year right. Seventy degrees in August in Ohio. Weird year.
Back from the rabbit trail. The corn looks great--good thing it's field
corn. I might be tempted to break a commandment. Lovely green,
tassels, the silk is turning reddish.
The beans look even better. Huge. Though the "quality" of the crops in
the field changes mile by mile. Scattered rains would be my guess. It
also looks as if some farmers are growing acres of red clover or some
such thing. There's too much of it to be random. Educate me farmers.
Do you have barns full of bees?
i have three farms I particularly
like to creep by. (Fast driving is a sin on the back roads. You'll
miss too much beauty.) One is on the way to my lunch place. Two are on
the way to Mount Gilead. I love the one because it's so
"homesteadyly." Old farm house, a big red barn, shade trees, a creek
that traverses the property with a small walking bridge. Lots of flower
beds around the house. Picturesque. The other one has more property, a
small pond, several trees. I like it because I can picture filling up
the space with flower beds and flowering trees and shrubs. Of course,
they don't compare with Iten's Acres (no wild flower area if nothing
else), but I enjoy creeping by them. (I hope the owners don't think I'm
too creepy.)
The wild flowers haven't changed much: Queen Anne's
Lace, sweet pea, chicory. There are clumps of iron weed to add some
purple to the scenery. Lovely despite its continuity. The main
noticeable tame flowers this time of year are the rose of Sharon. Tons
of those everywhere. Beautiful hummingbird magnets. Myriads of barn
swallows--slashes of blue across the landscape.
I do believe I could take a whole vacation and just drive (creep) along the country back roads of America.
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