a back road

As I have mentioned here in NC, we frequently find a landfill in some attractive or scenic local. Well, here in eastern NC in the midst of industrial sized hog farms and chicken and turkey operations, that may be debatable.
In more than one county in eastern NC, the landfill is the highest "peak" in the county offering views of corn, pine, soy, cucumber, cotton and more pine. Add in a little 90 plus degree heat, few clouds, high humidity, recent heavy rain and we are having a beautiful day.
The tobacco is tall, extremely well tended (grass will not grow here for a generation or more I bet)(the wonders of Dow and other chemicals)(now you probably could grow some broad leaf weeds, but not grass.)
below are cucumbers,-- I think --as we are near Mt. Olive, yes that Mt. Olive, as in the one on the jar of pickles in the grocery store.
and you think we import all that corn from Indiana and Illinois to feed those millions of pigs that provide the aroma that wafts by ever so frequently?

On the way home in the late afternoon, I enjoyed stopping by and looking in on a couple of "seen-better-days" corner stores.
There was some old equipment and even one heck of a smashed car at this corner
and I think this house is about 11 miles west of Mt. Olive. You can see all this stuff, even the wrecked car on street view from google, amazing. and you know, it was kind of scenic after all. --off the interstate.

Some years ago I rode across North Dakota in the winter and did a lot of those miles off the interstate and likewise was a bit fascinated with old abandoned stores and houses - some day I may try a random post on them. I like back roads.