072015

Coming home from Quincy, it was raining there but clearing on our way home to Nauvoo.  The humidity has been up around a suffocating 80% almost all of the time so when I go out for my morning jog, I'm pretty drenched by the time I get back to the ti-plex....and pooped also.  However, heading back this afternoon, it had cleared out a bit and we got some nice, cool weather, well, relatively speaking, and some pretty skies to look at:

This was taken in the town of Ursa.  Note the corn fields that are heading towards harvest in the not too distant future, the soybeans, the vastness of the acres and acres of land under cultivation.  It's hard to imagine how vast of an area is planted out here.  Their towns are sprawling, to say the least.  If you remember the Superman movies, it all really looks like that, everywhere you go.  Hard to believe that if you come from Kalifornia.  

...and, yes, it's green out here.  That comes from water falling from the skies.  You all from Kalifornia remember what that stuff is called, don't you?  It's called "rain".  They have gotten all of your rain out here, more than anyone can ever remember in forever.  Oh, and they don't seem to irrigate the crops.  Wonder why...thank the Lord for air conditioning....