Can you guess what’s piled up here?

Does this help?

Hmmm…I didn’t think so.  Unless you’re a farmer…or have farming in your family it’s unlikely you’ve got this figured out.  Is that enough of a hint?  No?

During our drive in middle Michigan this past weekend we saw lots of farmers out in the fields bringing in crops and tilling empty fields.  One of Michigan’s exports is sugar.  Can you guess now?

Yes!  That’s a heap of sugar beets!  There’s a sugar processing center for Pioneer Sugar up at Sebewaing which is on the western coast of the thumb of Michigan.  And this was one of the smaller piles there!  There were huge dump trucks filled with sugar beets lined up to dump.  Kind of amazing!

On Sunday morning when we woke and began to pack the car there was a semi truck with a flat bed full of brand new, shiny red and yellow farm equipment parked in the motel parking lot.  I thought the new farm equipment was beautiful.  What do you think?

To me it was sculpture…though I’m sure if anyone saw me taking pictures they’d have thought I was nuts.

Things are pretty straight forward and down to earth in middle Michigan.  Not so much into sculpture I’m thinking.

And you know how I usually give you photos of sunsets over water?  Well…how about a sunset over a corn field?

Just as beautiful, don’t you think?

We saw so many beautiful things, and I have so much to share with you.  It might take me a whole week of posts just to show you what we saw in two days.

Now for your next assignment.  Can you figure out what this is?