SOAKING RAINS WERE A WELCOME SIGHT this week; every plant benefited from their arrival, as did I.
My app on my phone registered over 2 inches of precipitation for the 24 hours. The timing was just right as we had had three days of very high temperatures earlier in the week and the landscapes showed visible signs of stress.
The weather system came from Wisconsin and remained in continuous formation for about 300 miles. It included some bands of heavy rain in the advancing front that moved over Lake Michigan. I enjoyed the cooler temperatures that came with it. My car’s exterior sparkled in its aftermath.
We have had near-perfect weather this spring as we came out of winter. I’m a golfer and we usually have a good sense of the weather’s effect on play. The rains have arrived mostly at night and our temperatures have been ideal for the game and have also helped everything that grows.
Driving into TC from Beulah this week brought into focus several fields of corn that appear to have jumped skyward benefiting from the heat and rain. This sight made me reminisce about the famous adage from my youth: "Knee high by the 4th of July.” The 4th is just around the corner, yet some corn rows are already reaching chest height. Perhaps, corn this year will come closer to the lyrics found in Oklahoma’s “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning.”
“There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow.
The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye,
An’ it looks like it’s climbin’ clear up to the sky.”
Rogers and Hammerstein
What fun to bring forward music and lyrics from a vinyl recording my parents used to play on their Hi-Fi in my childhood home. I can mesh these happy events and count my blessings taking in the sights of the vast rows of bright green corn while driving along M-72.
Oh, what a beautiful morning. Oh, what a beautiful day.
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