Yikes! What is this bizarre creature?
Its what remains of a cornstalk after the combine cuts through the field. See the amazing, spider-like support system that anchors the cornstalk to the ground during the growing season. Talk about being self-supportive.........
*The other night at my niece's high school variety show, sitting in front of me was an acquaintance who lives near where I grew up......in the neighborhood where the F5 tornado swept through last May. I asked about her experiences on the day of the storm. She said she and her husband, two daughters and grandchildren were busy at picking out invitations for her upcoming 50th wedding anniversary when the storm blew in. They all ran to the basement, of course, when they saw the ominous clouds approaching. After the tornado passed by, they came back up to find windows blown out all over the house, and glass, dirt, and cornstalks EVERYWHERE........in every cupboard and drawer, and embedded in furniture and carpets.
I used to attend a Bible study at this lady's house and I recall she was quite a decorator. She was a dealer for Home Interiors, and her house was full of decorative products from that company. She said, though, that NOT ONE of the figurines in her living room was broken during the storm, even though dirt and cornstalks were all over the place,
with some stalks even standing upright in candle votive cups! Weird, eh!?
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4 comments:
I guess my Daddy didn't think about making us chop cornstalks; we did everything else by hand (planting, thinning, picking) so I guess we were lucky. I can't remember (oh, no! my memory is failing) what happened to the corn stalks. Wonderful photos of the left-behinds.
Great photos. And that's an amazing story about your friend. It must have taken forever to clean up that house.
Oh, Pat......were you lucky to get to plant, thin, pick corn by hand? It helped make you a strong, hard-working person, though, right! Let's see.....back then, didn't farmers make corn shocks.....but, that was for chopping, maybe. I wonder, too, what became of the cornstalks you picked the ears from by hand. Did the cows get turn out there, maybe? And, then the stalks plowed under in the spring.
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Hi, Ruth,
Yes, she said they are still at getting things fixed. She had just hung some new curtains on the new windows. What a mess to have a house full of mud, cornstalks, and glass. Ugh.
Very cool photos. I didn't know that the root system to a corn plant looked like that. I learned something new today.
What a story your friend had to share! How weird that the corn stalks were all over the place and even standing up in the candle holders! CRAZY!!
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