Corn, Corn, Corn, Corn, Corn

CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN.
Oh wait, what's that? I still have 102 plots left to harvest? CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN. What do you mean I have to hand harvest 8116 ears? Really? CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN. Oh, by the way here is a 40 year old truck with 330,000 miles and a cracked windshield glued together. CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN. Megan, you can drive stick shift, right? I forgot to tell you the clutch doesn't really work. CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN. Oh, and, you need to use the front gas tank first and flip this switch but sometimes it will switch to the back tank before the first is empty. Great. CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN.

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
-Wendell Berry

Oh, if you couldn't tell from above, I have a lot of corn to harvest. Just in case you missed it, I was given the world's worst vehicle to drive. I'd like y'all to know I can drive stick shift but not so much when the clutch doesn't work and the shifter is half broken. I rather drive a tractor to Rocky Mount on the interstate. Anyways, I'll be making a second journey to finish harvesting my plots so I can analyze how successful I was at inoculating my fields!!

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” -Mahatma Gandhi

Yesterday I did some volunteering at the Kadampa Center. I dead-headed the marigolds (discovered I'm allergic to them) around the stupa. Then I rushed home, picked up Emily and Emma, and went to volunteer at BugFest. I told little children all about bugs that carry pathogens that make plants sick. I'm 98% sure the kids just wanted the stamps and could care less about mummy berry disease or pine wilt nematode. Oh well, kept me entertained for awhile!

Well, that's all for now so have some stunning nature photos and quotes!

“If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.”  - Jane Goodall

We inter-breathe with the rainforests, we drink from the oceans. they are part of our own body. -Buddha

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”  -Martin Luther King Jr.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. -Dalai Lama

“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.”  -Chief Seattle

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” -Masaru Emoto

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” 

-Gary Snyder