Friday August 24, 2012

 

 

Outside Our Front Door

 

Foggy Morning

 

 

 

 

Even in the fog you can see that some of the leaves are turning colors already.

 

 

Pine Tree

 

 

Rainy Morning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crepe Myrtle

 

 

This cardinal caught my eye. It appears to be old, ill, or has some kind of disease.

 

 

This is the first summer ever that the hummingbirds are emptying our feeder.

 

 

 

 

They are busy all day long.

 

 

There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,
There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,
The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye,
An’ it looks like its climbin’ clear up to the sky.

Oscar Hammerstein II

 

 

 

 

The ears don’t seem exceptionally large for this time of year, but I almost feel like I must apologize to those of you in the midwest where the corn didn’t produce at all this summer.

 

 

Our house is on the far left – between the trees and the corn.

 

 

There are a few fields on my brothers farm that have the strangest corn this year. Some of it is much taller than others. The man who planted it said it is a new breed and this happened in some other fields he planted. He is puzzled too.

 

 

I think this is the tallest corn on the farm – it’s next to our house – and the tassels on top are invisible because of the way the sun was shining. It is somewhere between eleven and twelve feet tall – from the ground to the top of the tassels.