Last night here was the season's first frost, leaves are in full fall colors, on fields and roads run huge combines with grain bins on rubber tracks.
Seems like over half the crops are harvested, so far.
Some fields have livestock eating the leftovers.
On others, huge eight-wheel tractors pulling disks for winter crops.
Doubtful if Ernie Pyle would find all this exciting enough, but for many people, it's as close to the good life as you'll find in this one.
I drive past those same fields every year to Turkey Run State Park on Indiana 47. Mrs. henkster’s family has an annual reunion there. We used to take US 36 to visit her grandma in Rockville.
What brings you out that way?
Weather station Kurt today, in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa:
This was the only German military operation on the North American mainland. So far as is known, it was not detected until the 1970's.
The Germans' lack of weather data particularly hurt them with respect to the Normandy landings. Weather in that region generally moves from Northwest to Southeast. The Germans did not know about the brief break in the weather that Ike used to make the D-Day landings, and assumed there would be no invasion during the rainy, stormy weather.