Corn illustration also borrowed : www.botanical.com
I "borrowed " these two quotes from one of my new favorite blogs (that I think I may have mentioned previously) www.salmoncabin.com
They are both from Rilke, but I always love new quotes and these are timely for my recent state of mind:
"if there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things; they will not abandon you" and "Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come." Words to live by.
Salmon cabin also talked today about the old saying about corn (that I learned from both of my parents)
"Knee high by the fourth of July". My Dad and I have a Sunday morning ritual of walking in a different Columbus City or Metro Park each week. Today we drove back out to the" Ponds at Prairie Creek" aka Prairie Oaks Darby Bend Lakes. This little gem of a park was made by reclaiming an old (Olen) quarry that is on The Darby River (or Big Darby Creek as the locals call it). To me it will always be "a river".
Anyhoo, we were driving back to the Westside and passed by many a corn field that was indeed "knee high" and some even taller.
What alot of folks don't realize about all of this corn though, is that more than 80% of it goes to feed livestock or processed to be some variety of corn syrup or corn filler. Science sez that humans are now being born with corn in our DNA. Watch "King Corn" (the documentary) for more on that.
I am hoping that the corn that I planted at Blue Rock Station a few weeks ago has not yet been found by the chickens. The small plot in my Mom's backyard isn't "knee high" yet...but it is growing fast. I planted it just a few weeks ago, knowing it would be ripe in time for my October birthday. Open-pollinated , the way all corn should be. Read: This is not Frankenstein corn. I dream and hope for big ears to sink my teeth into in the fall.
Time will tell.
