Field of Dreams

I decided to take a different route of driving on my way back to my mother's house through some back roads. I ended up driving a 30 mile loop around to the same place I had started, and then in the end finding my way back to the house.

On these back roads I found many interesting things such as this baseball field. Now abandoned, it is literally many miles away from any town at all and is surrounded by corn and soybean fields.


I couldn't help but look around for Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones. Needless to say, I couldn't find them. But it was amusing to whisper to myself as I continued driving ahead, "If you build it, he will come."

The one thing that truly vexes me is how anyone could mistake Heaven for Iowa.. it's just plain silly. I like to hope Heaven isn't so infested with bugs that you can't move without at least 4 landing on you. Not to mention the horrific humidity! It's August, the worst time of the year to be in Iowa.. you can cut the air with a knife!

Another interesting thing I saw in the ditches next to the road was wild marijuana. I shit you not. Here's one now!


As my friend Dusty described this plant.. it's GARGANTUAN! Yes, yes it is. I saw a few others along the side of the road as well, the farmers just (supposedly) spray weed killer on it because it effects their crop growth... It's just a weed they say. And people pay out the nose to get half a sandwich bag of this stuff? Crazy how different states are to one another...

Laurel