Corn Stalks and Morning Glory Vines
Every summer, whether or not corn is planted in this field, thousands of Morning Glory vines grown out of the soil. Purple, pink, white, and tiny orange flowers climb up the stalks and stems of anything else that grows here.
The flowers only appear before noon, then retreat until the following morning. Their presence on the tall cornstalks doesn’t seen to hurt the development of the ears. It’s almost as though the flashy Morning Glories attract the insects necessary to polinate the small, drab, brown flowers on the corn tops.
These opportunistic guests will always be here, because each blossom produces a seed pod that is plowed under in the fall, with six new seeds ready to sprout next spring. What a beautiful addition these hardy vines make to these monotonous rows of our most cultivated food.
Living in The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina- A Blog 
Lovely, Morning Glories are so beautiful. Vann, not only are you sharing beautiful picture; but also all the information about your subjects. Our own private tutor, Love it! Thanks as usual
Thank you Edwina… We all have so much to learn about the most common things. I guess I have a little bit of “teacher” deep inside me. Vann
Morning Glories by Mary Oliver
Blue and dark-blue
rose and deepest rose
white and pink they
are everywhere in the diligent
cornfield rising and swaying
in their reliable
finery in the little
fling of their bodies their
gear and tackle
all caught up in the cornstalks.
The reaper’s story is the story
of endless work of
work careful and heavy but the
reaper cannot
separate them out there they
are in the story of his life
bright random useless
year after year
taken with the serious tons
weeds without value
humorous beautiful weeds.
Thank you Nancy… That was so beautiful… and appropriate. Vann