The rolling hills of North Dakota are lush with acres and acres of sunflowers bending in the wind. Hay bales are scattered, lined up or stacked for a few hundred miles.
There is still some corn, but there are signs that it is being used to manufacture ethanol. This is a very controversial process. Consumers worry about how much corn it takes to make a gallon of ethanol and wonder what will happen to the edible corn supply. Will it drive prices up? Will the Mexican population have enough for their tortillas?
The evergreens are mostly yews, for windbreaks, but most of the trees are deciduous. About 50% of them are turning yellow or maroon.
There are little mounds of rocks in the fields where the farmers have piled stones dug from their fields while plowing.
It's amazing how many colors of green, tan, rust, yellow, gold and brown fields one can count in a five mile strip.
When we see some white cows drinking from a stream. Corinne wonders if they are holy Brahma bulls. Bob says they are just the beef for White Castle hamburgers.
I-94 is interrupted by major road construction. Once again we see the humongous vehicles and the huge staging area from which the workers radiate for 6 miles in both directions.
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