Summer in the midwest

Another travel blog --

This will come in installments because there was so much to see and cover during a recent trip to the breadbasket of America.

Let me begin by posting a couple pictures of contrasting capitols---

This is the State Capitol in Des Moines - Iowa, not New Mexico.  

All of Des Moines, New Mexico would fit in this building.   

There's gold in them thar roofs  ---

This is the State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska.   

Use a little imagination...it's a giant cornstalk ---

And this is me, at the Cass County Fair near Weeping Water, Nebraska.   

This tractor, and the attachments that allow the gentleman farmers to bring in the crops, costs about $450,000.  This green monster happens to be a John Deere -- which reminds me of a joke told by my 5th grade teacher in Taos,New Mexico.   Celestino Romero, who would go on to serve in the state legislature was the teacher.

Teacher Romero:  "Do you know what the tractor said to the plow?"

Students:   "No Mr. Romero, what did the tractor say to the plow?"

Teacher Romero:  "Hold me closer, John Deere!"

Drum roll, please!

And, this is how Weeping Water, Nebraska got it's name:

On the road, again, Connie & I couldn't pass up the opportunity to be outstanding in a field - of corn!

(A few sunflowers snook into the picture along the ditchbank!)  

Across the street were soybean fields!