Feeling Blessed

A week ago we had eight inches of rain from Tropical Storm Gordon.  There are many around us that lost soybeans from flooding, but our farmer was lucky and so were we.  Shelton Creek shoots across a forty that belongs to our farmer, and then it goes across us during flood events.  We planted a patch of cypress trees many years ago to kill the velocity and to spread the flow out, and that little patch of trees makes a big difference.  It saves soil on a regular basis, and this time it saved some corn.  The flood came on Saturday, and on Friday (Yesterday) he was picking our corn.  Today he did his field.  No channels cut and no corn down!  Farmers traditionally don't have a good relationship with trees, but they can work wonders.

Anyhow, here comes the corn, and the combine after the shelling was done.

This is our little miracle worker.  Birds love it, too, and deer have been known to hide in it from road hunters.