Endless fields

Cornfield near Hamel, Illinois
July 12, 2011
Photograph by Tom Atwood

Where I live there is a lot of corn. I remember an old saying that farmers wanted their corn to be "knee-high by the Fourth of July." Today, July 12, the corn around here is taller than a person. So I stood on my car on Hamel road to get this picture, the tops of the corn tasseling in the field.