Corn Rows

I escaped suburbia on Saturday to see this:

Look, no neighbors. Sigh.

And then I saw corn.
Lots and lots of corn--and soybeans.
Row after row of green shoots erupting from the earth,
making the world seem orderly and safe. And beautiful.

But that only made me wonder about corn and soybeans,
and I started to ask questions.
Lots of questions.
Questions that poor Jerry had to answer instead of
relaxing in a comfy chair with a cool drink under the shade of a tree.

But he did, and did so patiently.
And I learned a lot about corn and soybeans, and erosion
and crop rotation.

And then I took photos of the corn.
I got down in the dirt
and aimed my camera low to capture the beauty of the earth,

while the rest of the group just watched......
and laughed
at the city girl in the field of corn.

Sigh.