Corn Harvesting

 The corn that has been growing in the fields around us was harvested the other day. I was so glad. I had thought it might be nice to have corn growing instead of the normal soy beans we had been used. But the corn got taller that we had figured and made a live fence around us. Then it dryed out and seemed to be what was causing a bad case of alergies for me and hubby, and Ziva dog. and our cats. I have never seen cats with algeries as bad as what ours had. I think the dry corn with lots of road dust from the vehicles going by and some mold in the stalks because we had so much rain was causing an alergy problem we had never had before. 

   But now the corn is down, or at least the fields near us are. There are still some fields on our road that need to be cut yet. We still have algeries but I am hoping that they will settle down with some time and maybe some rain on the fields. 

  Here are photos of the corn being harvested. I have total respect for all farmers and ranchers and anyone that is a grower and gatherer of food. 

this is the machine cutting down the corn and inside it seperates the corn from the stalk and cuts it off the cob

The chopped up stalk and cob are pushed out the back of the harvester

The corn is sent from the harvester into a special trailer pulled by a tractor. When the trailer is full the tractor pulls it down the road where a big truck and big trailer wait. The corn is shifted to the large trailer and goes to a nearby grain silo where the corn is stored until it is sold for what ever kind of usage. Corn an go for so many uses. Cornmeal, corn starch, animal food, cereal, certain types of fuel and many more uses. 

The flag was in our yard and I thought it made a good photo. Many thanks to the two men running the harvester and the tractor. 

Fall Leaves at Our House

    Here are some photos of the fall leaves in our yard and close by. They are just as nice, if not better, than what we have seen on our drives to different places in past few weeks. 

wish I could figure out what this red bush is. There are several around here. We have the great big one but I like the smaller one that is in some of the other photos. In spring it has white flowers and then is green all summer and this nice pink-red in fall with tiny red berries. But nothing eats the berries. 

Fall Leaves in Kentucky

 Fall has arrived. I am still disappointed in the fall leaves here in Kentucky. I didn't expect the leaves to be as pretty as the photos I have seen of the upper northeastern states but did expect them to be as nice as those I have seen in upper West Virginia. We have been out several times hoping to find a place where the fall leaves are nice in color so we could get some photos but haven't found anything we really liked. I keep thinking it is just a wrong year for pretty fall leaves since I know it depends on the length of the day, the tempatures during day and night and rain or no rain. Of course here it seems as if it is raining several times a week at least. Here are some of the photos I got on a trip up into southern Indiana last week. 

     We took a ride the other day and went someplace we had never been before. We went north up Interstate 71 toward Cincinnati, Ohio but turned off and went through Florance, Kentucky then caught a secondary road through Union, Kentucky and came back to Carrollton, Kentucky that way. Along the way we saw a small pull off with a great view of the Ohio River. There was a flag pole there with a sign under it telling a  huge wreak between two riverboats in 1868. As much history as I have studied on the United States and as many fiction books I have read that usually had some sort of refferenc to historic events this was one I had never heard off. 

Toadstools Again

 And a few more photos of toadstools or mushrooms or fungas which ever you want to call them. Most of them are now gone as we had to mow the grass as it was getting so tall we thought we might could make hay out of it. No, it wasn't really that tall, but taller than we like to walk through especially when it is wet. Notice the first photo looks like a golf ball but it is a toadstool.