Elmer's Garden Early July
Sweet Corn Late JulyElmer and Helen live in North East Kansas, he is 75 ish shes just shy of 82. She smiles and says "I married a younger man the second time around". Both have raised large families and have too many grandchildren to count. They live together in a century old limestone farmhouse where one hears the birds outside (or the wind for that matter) only when the windows are open, it is quiet and solid, like them. Elmer raises a garden every year that is about half as big as a football field. They raise tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, melons, grapes among other things, they make their own ketchup, pickles and just about everything else they feed you when you show at dinnertime. They make their own wine and are kind of frugal with it when it comes to visitors. They will offer you a taste, it warms the soul, and when you roll you eyes and say "another?" They smile again and reply "just a few bottles left for winter".
Helen is my wife's mom. My wife went up late in July to help them put up corn. A days work and 70 pints of some of the sweetest corn around my wife returned with a few bushels and many pints. I found these photos this evening thinking of both Elmer and Helen after we had some of the frozen corn, couldn't wait for fall.
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7 comments:
That looks really lovely!
Larry: Thanks for sharing this neat look at part of your family.
Elmer & Helen seem like down to earth folks. Sure like their garden. I so miss having fresh vegies.
Very! Thanks for sharing your part of the world.
This week's MWT seems to have had a food theme. ;)
What a beautiful life they live, attached to the earth and providing for their own needs.
Janice.
I envy them. What a great way to be old. Eating their own produce like that, so great. I hope they both live to 100.
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