FIRST CORN!. . . (coming late after a wet Spring) Growing on the shoulders of the former tallgrass
prairie, and displaying a similar growth rhythm to the now relatively rare signature species of that habitat  --  
Big Bluestem  --, corn is now planted everywhere in the Midwest of North America. Despite all the irrational
and negative features of this style of agriculture  -- depletion of topsoil (loss of humus and soil fertility),
species loss and degradation, and the complete dependence  on(as a kind of addiction) one-way chemical
inputs  --  the sight of a vast field of corn all sprouting at once is truly a miracle.



(Photograph was made Saturday, the 25th of May, 2002)