Veggies

Jeanna and I each create blogs each day. Since we're riding over the same roads, seeing the same stuff, you have to expect some duplication. But today she did her blog first and managed to steal 100% of the observations I was planning to make.

What to do? Skip doing a blog today? No, that would be too easy. So I'll just duplicate Jeanna's efforts.

We saw plenty of apple orchards today, but if you want to see apple pictures, look at yesterday's blog. Today we saw vegetables, and we experienced a time warp. Some farmers are harvesting corn, others are planting corn. Make up your minds, is it planting season or harvest time? Neither seems right for August in NY.

Someone harvested corn while it was still green. Is this sweet corn? Do dairy cows prefer fresh corn silage?

Someone down the road just planted corn. Surely there's not enough time left for it to mature.

Some kind of squash. Let's take a closer look.

We met a man named Santiago weeding a field of cabbage. Apparently that's still done by hand with a hoe in this day and age. I guess spraying herbicides on leaf vegetable crops is not a good idea.

We are staying on the banks of the Oak Orchard River. We've seen this river before. Two weeks ago when we left Medina, we crossed over the river on an Erie Canal aqueduct.

Mouth of the Oak Orchard River. Iroquois were fishing here a thousand years ago, and folks are still fishing here today.

From the archives - a few miles upstream where the Oak Orchard River passes under the Erie Canal.

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