Field of dreams
I was on vacation with my family earlier this week.
One day I'm eating fast food in the Azrieli Tower in Tel Aviv and the next day I'm picking corn in a massive field in the southern Golan kibbutz Afik.
No, I didn't quit my day job; I decided to take one more day of vacation and lay low in the Golan. After all, yesterday there was a "county fair" on my moshav and I wanted to help out a bit. So when I asked how I could help, one of the organizers told me to meet up with one of the farmers and go pick fresh ears of corn.
A great experience if you haven't done so already. When we drove out to the corn fields it literally looks like you're in Iowa or Nebraska, except for the fact that they probably have a billion times more corn. Nevertheless, this Golan corn field was MASSIVE!
Corn needs a lot of water to grow, so the slender stalks were situated on a clay-like mud, which made it nearly impossible to walk on with sandals, but a sensational pleasure to walk on barefoot.
And of course eating two freshly plucked corns at the end made the trip more than worthwhile.
6 comments:
Ok found and enjoyed your blog.Read for a fair while but u never said where u live. An educated guess places u in Jonathan(probably not the correct english spelling) I am from England and live in qasrin (q without a u!!!)I am not a religious jew but getting to the golan was one of the thing I did in life!!!! I would be happy if u get in touch with me-my name is mike shabetai.
I am a baby blogger and my site social and political Israel can be found at http://hereinisrael.blogspot.com/ -another way u can contact me. Anway good luck Mike
not seen u here recently-I guess u must be busy-who is not!! wanted to wih u hag samach (if that is how u write it in english)
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your comments. Yep, your guesses are correct. I've been extremely busy and am also suffering from writer's block.
Hope to find more time and creativity soon!
Hag Samayach,
Shmuel
I LOVE your blog...keep up the great work, and I'll drop in often!
L'Shalom...
We have everything here in Israel, no doubt.
Another corny story...
(but a good read any way...)
:D
Still waiting for your 'hiatus ' to be over.
Shalom Mr Bagel
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