It's Just Not the Same

When we first arrived back in Tianjin, I was in such a jet lag haze that it didn't really hit me that there was corn growing randomly throughout the yards here. I guess maybe I was so used to seeing corn on a daily basis at my mom's (there is a corn field right behind her house), that I just didn't question it...until the other day! Why are they growing one stalk of corn in the yard? Why are they growing corn in their front yard? Why is the corn not in rows? What are they going to do with the corn? I know by now not to expect a reasonable answer to any of my questions, but I can't help but wonder!!
Completely different farming techniques from one country to another is all I can say!!

Oh, how I miss those big, puffy clouds!!