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THE Corn Palace - Mitchell, South Dakota

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We could NOT miss the Corn Palace, The Word's Only Corn Palace.  It isn't build of corn - which I was hoping for - but, rather, it sports several very large murals contructed from ears of variably colored corn.  The murals change each year and these masterpieces of vegetable art have been on display in Mitchell since 1892 - long before the concept of a pixelated image was coined. It is no surprise that this year the images are patriotic in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.   It is hard to get a great photo of the palace: trees, traffic, scaffolding.   If you are finding yourself in Mitchell and considering the Corn Palace, you do want to go inside.  You, unlike me, might be a person interested in the gymnasium full of flea-market like souvenier vendors.  More importantly, the murals continue inside AND there are photos of previous years work.  This week I celebrate the artists who design these exercises in edible poi...
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Can you name this correctly??

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 If your response was "new washing machine".......winner, winner chicken dinner!
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Autumn on Harrison

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This should have been a summer picture.  I planted an entire envelope of cosmos this spring and each time a seedling broke the 3 inch mark, a rabbit consumed it.  Finally, I have one.  ONE cosmos.  I think it is a volunteer from plants I grew a couple years ago. It isn't where I planted this spring.   I don't know why the rabbits let this one get past.  She stands about 24 inches tall.  Spindly.  With only 3 flowers/buds.  Still - cosmos always makes me smile.  Welcome.
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Final image

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They are supposed to take down the crab apple today.  Our last picture together.  A cloudy fall afternoon.  Misty rain in the air.  A tear in my eye.  I let her know I loved her.  Her beauty in the spring.  Her gnarled branches.  Her favorite hawk perch.  There aren't many leafed branches anymore.  Part of that is the season.  She never held her leaves all summer and through fall.  But the marjority are dead.  Rest friend.  
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Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke

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I thought that Purple Cane Road was the first book of Burke's that I read - probably 25 years ago.  In my mind I've carried the image of a man crucified on the wall of an old shed.  Turns out, that is an image from Sunset Limited .  A haunting image.  Lush description. Complex characters. Mood.  Mood.  Mood.  (And not in a sunshine and unicorns’ way.) As with all the Robicheaux novels, the plate is full of characters.  One movie producer, one director, one photographer, a shoe-shine man turned farmer of zinnias and chrysanthemums , his son who has one of the all-time best names (Cool Breeze Broussard), prostitutes, mafia mobsters, multiple killers/assassins, 2 sherriffs, good, bad, and ugly cops, two FBI agents - not to mention the aforementioned crucified man and Clete.   Finding words to share with you from this novel was an exercise in restraint.  You can see in the photo I posted with this essay my list of ideas from THE FI...
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Stillwater Prairie Reserve - Sept 13

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 Yes, I'm late getting these posted.  Beautiful fall day.  Color.
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Surprise! Autumn on Harrison

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Do you recognize it? One of our lilacs performing a little do-over.  As a group they have mostly lost all their leaves but one brave soul is over-achieving with a semi-annual blossom.  I have not done any research to see if this is as strange as it seems to me.  I haven't seen it before- other than the crab apple which has rebloomed for a couple years.... those years being her swan song before, well, you know.  
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