FALL is here!

 

I usually post the annual event and somehow this year it seems way too soon. When we arrived in May the maples had just filled out and a mere three months or so later they have gotten the word that the summer is over.

 

 

As it has for the northeastern part of North America this has been a very cool summer and the local weather channel reflects what has been the average since June. In fact this Wednesday the high will be about 62 degrees in rain. We haven't gone more than a couple of days without running the furnace at least a bit in the morning just to take the chill off ... nice.

Speaking of the rain and cool we have had a consistent pattern of four or five days of brilliant sun followed by a couple days of rain and cool nights hopefully making for some happy farmers as you can see below.

I can reach about eight feet and this corn is a good foot taller and the rows are particularly closely spaced ... max harvest here. Actually they haven't even begun to harvest the bulk of the corn and it will be fatter and taller in the next three weeks, especially with the predicted rain and then sun for the next few days. My adventurous mind says that this could make a cruel corn maze ... yes!

And the stuff goes on for miles ... literally hundreds if not thousands of acres locally. Farmer Brown down the road has cut his first bunch and it will be piled on the table beside the house for $6 a dozen (13 ears of course) ... we'll be the first in line.

 

 

Fall does mean making sure the Flying Scotsman is ready to move and that we start the preliminary planning of the southward migration ... like the geese eh.