Beautiful Scenery

I’m going to do this entry as another one of those “Explain that gram” entries. Have fun with it.

I left my house in good time this morning and made the call that with rain coming I would move the corn location I’d planned to see into next week and focus on getting this soybean location done before driving North in the light. I got to the location and saw some interesting things. The site was very muddy and probably should have been harvested weeks before, if not for the constant rain and mud. The pods on some varieties in a trial were cracking open and dropping the beans out as they got over-ripe. Those dropped beans germinated and started growing. This is not what we meant by double crop soybean. It looks like a mess. I took my notes, more than I should have, and got on my way, hoping for a relaxing drive.

It was a pretty chill drive. I had a few calls to field but otherwise it was smooth sailing. The weather kept getting better the closer I got to home. By the time I reached Huntsville the sun was out and the fall colours were on full display. Big scenic swaths of trees lit up the horizon. I was probably a week too late to see the ful majesty of it all but I was still very impressed with what I saw. Eventually I arrived in North Bay and went to see She at her workplace. I planned for a late lunch having eaten my last breast of jerk chicken while driving. It was wrapped in Saran wrap and I ate it like a chocolate bar. I like doing that while traveling, cuts down on the number of stops. I ordered a quesadilla and we chatted a few times during the meal when she had time to come over. We had a long embrace after the bill was settled and I carried on my wayward journey.

I’m always very impressed by the scenery near Latchford and Bay Lake. Driving along the water with beautiful trees in the distance. The day was beautiful and I made sure to drink it in. I stopped for a second and got a quick picture dangerously while in the road, it was worth it. The photo does nothing to capture the true majesty of the environment here but it will serve as a reminder for me and I can access the memory when I look back at this picture. It was absolutely stunning and I’m glad I got to experience it.

When I finally arrived I noticed that a little bug who had hitched a ride in North Bay was still hanging on. I’d noticed it up by the mirror and tried tapping the glass to get it to go live its life and it’d disappeared from my view but apparently it had hung on for the whole two hours. I guess it will have to make it’s way in this part of the world now. It looks like a spruce bug but I’m not an entomologist so I couldn’t say one way or the other. I thought it was neat that it hung on for that long and traveled all that distance. It’s neat to think about. Hopefully it doesn’t cause some kind of shift in the insect populations.

Dinner was homemade hamburgers prepared in the air fryer. These were very good. I ripped a cheese slice in half and dabbed on some mustard. The burger was the star of this show though. Very nice meal to finish off the day for me.

I did a bit of exploring after dinner. The forecast was calling for rain for most of the weekend so I wanted to get around and see stuff before that happened. Mother had several fall displays at strategic points around the property. The things that really caught my attention in her wares was the unusual pumpkin. I forget what kind she said it was but apparently it is supposed to look like that. I looks almost like it has something else growing on it. I think it looks pretty gruesome and cool. She had a few of them, hopefully she plants those again next year. My genetic knowledge made me wonder if there had been some kind of cross pollination with gourd flowers and this was the result. Apparently that was not the case, or at least allegedly it wasn’t.

The final shot of the day was to be of the lush lawns, the freshly tiled field across the road and the general beauty of the fall colours but when Coco wandered into frame I couldn’t resist. She surprised me by popping a squat at that moment. Generally she saves such activities for when she is in the trees to her left but lucky for you, she changed it up. I thought it was hilarious, which it is, so I snapped the picture. The sun set minutes later and that was basically it. It was a pretty early night which was fine with me as I’d had a long day of travelling.