King Corn

Drive during summer time in the Illinois Valley and you are sure to be surrounded by corn. The ubiquitous plant is how the Midwest was won, and is only interrupted by brief patches of soybeans and a few other assorted crops in the fields that line nearly every road.

There is a new source of revenue sprouting up in northern Bureau County alongside the mile after mile of magnificent fields of maize -- windmills.
The two battle for dominance of the landscape, the corn rows stretching endlessly into the horizon, the blades of the windmills arching upward towards the heavens.





Windmill, in corn field, just off of Route 26 north of Ohio.



Of course, long rows of corn need long rows of grain bins for harvest time.

It was hot out Thursday with temps right around 100 degrees, so not a lot of multiple takes and preening on this mini-shoot on the way home from visiting the family. Mom and Jen had just returned from their trip to Uganda, so it was a very nice visit.