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Yin yang of field corn

You know that cute little symbol for yin-yang that’s like a black comma and a white comma fitted together in the middle?   Well, while picking corn a couple of weeks ago (yes, picking corn in March!) I spied an ear that eerily resembled that ancient symbol:

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The variety of corn is an heirloom called “Crow’s Foot” and it varies in color from the dark maroon to the mottled yellow/maroon color, but this ear was solid maroon on one side and mottled on the other…..interesting.