Harvest

Fertilizer

He ignored the local legends and planted his corn too close to the old cemetery. Too damn close.

Long Way Til Harvest

Scarecrows

Once I said to a scarecrow, “You must be tired of standing in this lonely field.”

And he said, “The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it.”

Said I, after a minute of thought, “It is true; for I too have known that joy.”

Said he, “Only those who are stuffed with straw can know it.”

Then I left him, not knowing whether he had complimented or belittled me.

A year passed, during which the scarecrow turned philosopher.

And when I passed by him again I saw two crows building a nest under his hat.

Kahlil Gibran

Farmhands

More Photos From The Season

Cemetery By The Corn

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Four Days In Dixie

When night had fallen I cautiously left my place of concealment, dodged across the road into the woods and made for the river through the mile of corn. Such corn! It towered above me like a forest, shutting out all the starlight except what came from directly overhead. Many of the ears were a yard out of reach. One who has never seen an Alabama river-bottom cornfield has not exhausted nature’s surprises; nor will he know what solitude is until he explores one in a moonless night.

Ambrose Bierce

Image by Bill.

Daylight

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Corn Monsters

Image by Aaron Barksdale.

Haunted Corn

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Haunted Corn Maze

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Last Weekend

Some week-old photos...

The Skeleton is a year-round mirror ornament in my ride...the pumpkin is a seasonal thing.

Saturday

Finally having some nice Autumn weather, so we went for a drive yesterday and stopped at a favorite shop in Bucks County - Bountiful Acres.  Unfortunately, the Christmas decorations had already pushed out most of the Halloween, but they still had some hanging around the shop and they had a ton of pumpkins and gourds.

Saw this on the way...

Cornfield Burial

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Corn Reaper

Image by Watt_Dabney.

Depth

LOVE this idea.
Think of something like this at night.


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Corn

...of the sculpture variety.


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Indian Corn

Corn kernels have different colors because of genes that control color. Each kernel is an individual with its own set of genes, like an embryo. Kernels are siblings housed on the same ear and so naturally have many different colors. By naturally, I mean, through the course of natural selection. One-color ears are unnatural products of human selection.
Livestock feeders prefer vitamin-rich yellow kernels, Southerners like white kernels, and Native Americans favor blue. Years of deliberate selection, careful pollination, and storing of seeds produced these single-color corn ears.

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