IT'S DIFFERENT NOW

It has been a great year for consuming fresh sweet corn.
With delight I chomp away on three or four rows at a time.
(Still have my front teeth.) And, it doesn't even need butter.
YUM!   I recall as a child, that our family consumed fresh
corn. It was not as sweet back then. And -  our parents
cautioned us to watch out for corn smut and the little worms
called corn borers.
As a budding naturalist, I thought the borers were interesting.


         Corn borers peer out
from holes. Lumps of smut erupt
   from along the ends of ears.
                Hey . . . It's 
              chemical free !