Beyond the gravel pit a farmer harvests soybeans on fields from a farm which has been
sold to put a new high school on. The new name has been selected - East Ridge High. The gravel
pit will become a holding area for storm water runoff.
A road will run around the western edge of the gravel pit and meet up with Mile Drive.
This is the final harvest on this to-be-suburbanized farmland.
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Wayne Schilling harvests the soybeans on Field #1.
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Field #9 is getting harvested. On the leftmost picture you can see The Mound in the
far top-right portion of the picture.
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I am going to post this picture of a Blue Jay taken through my front door. Days before, I had
cut several corn stalks from field #9 and tied them around a plant-hanging post. This Jay immediately
landed and began feeding on the kernels.
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The crop in Field #9 has been taken in. Not every corn cob makes it into the storage bins -
what falls to the ground is referred to as "waste grain".
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The northwest corner of the intersection of Mile Drive and Bailey Road has been graded flat
by the gravel pit company. They are going to plant what appears to be winter wheat on this
giant area to anchor the soil down next spring. Rumor has it this area will become
ball fields for the new high school, or ball fields for the city recreation department.
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Two Oaks.
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The farmer has began to pick chunks of the cornfield in Field #4.
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The north side of Bluebird Treeline.
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Looking north from the farm driveways.
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The Copse - unspectacular fall colors.
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At the south end of Mile Drive, the view west down Dale Road.
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Turning right, the view north along Mile Drive.
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More frost grapes in the ditch. I like the tightly curled tendril on the rightmost picture
(center, bottom edge).
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