It was a perfect October day.
After a week of rain that transformed
the fields, seemingly overnight, into a green blanket our Saturday visit to THE
MAZE turned out to be bright sun-shiny tee-shirt weather.
What a phenomenon that visit was. A local farm, now a
produce provider larger than Safeway, has with it an amusement park atmosphere complete
with a utility vehicle pulling a cow-train that careens up and down mounds of earth mowed clean as
a lawn, a horse-drawn wagon, a tractor drawn wagon, an elaborate water-flowing sluice for panning semi-precious stones
(purchased there of course), and a feed-the-goats area on a cat-walk situated
on top of the roof--just the place goats love to go. To feed the goats you place grain in a bucket,
and with the pulley attached you raise the bucket up to the roof. The goats
were so full they didn’t know if climbing to the roof was worth it.
Our purpose there was to conquer THE MAZE. I have to show
you these pictures for I was so astounded by their artistry I have to share it.
It took the entire afternoon to escape the corn-field maze—that was my two daughters,
two grandsons—who thought it was a ball by the way, and myself.
Entering the CORN MAZE
Here is a map of our journey
Yep, the corn is as high as an elephant's eye
Real corn too--no picking, no throwing
Indeedy.
Two white horses to wish upon, they are Percherons
Which way?
Previous years mazes.
These are aerial photographs. Now, tell me, how in the heck do they lay out these designs? I guess they have a computerized tractor. My guess is the maze is either laid out before the corn is planted, or when it is lawn-high. What's your guess?
AT NIGHT OUR MAZE IS HAUNTED.
