Corn

Today, February first, Charlotte came to me with the request if we could please go out to the garden and retrieve the any ears of Indian corn that had grown this past summer.  Last night we had had a snow and the garden was under a blanket of white, but I had been putting her off for some time to do this, so I told her we could this afternoon.  At 4 pm we donned our coats and gloves and braved the five degree temps and wind and found one stalk of corn above the snow.

Charlotte carefully pulled back the husks on the ear.

She was absolutely thrilled to find rows of beautiful kernels of corn.  Shades of maroon, stripes and creams.  The whole ear was almost filled-out end-to-end.  Pretty good for the 12 hills of corn she, Annie and Lydia had planted back in June.

When the stalks had made tassels and the silks were emerging from the ears, we had talked about how all it worked together in an amazing chain of events.  It was really neat to see these results.  I'm thinking I was just about as amazed as Charlotte!  Our Lord's creation is just thrilling.