a day on the farm

amy & i were invited to a weekend in southwestern kansas with rachel, dana & her boyfriend mark. mark is a crop consultant down there & one of his clients let us tag along on their corn harvest. we rode the grain cart, the combine & the truck that took the corn to the co-op for unloading. we were amazed at the efficiency & technology that goes into the process & the knowledge required for the good crops we city folk take for granted. being far removed from the sources of the objects of our consumption - food, clothes, computers, cars, etc. - allows us to lose sight of the fact that these things only get here because people are there to provide it. there is no longer a human element to the produce we buy. there is no longer a natural element because surrounded by the feats of man - buildings, infrastructure, machines - everything is seen as either a means or a hindrance to our own ends.

those are the thoughts, these are the pics.