depscribe's photos with the keyword: Guysville, Ohio

They say the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the young travelers learned that this is even more true of fresh, locally grown, early-harvest corn on the cob.

Rob Phillips of RL Valley Ranch talked about environmental effects -- and environmental regulation effects -- on local farmers.

The students listened intently as the farmers told them of the challenges and triumphs of modern agriculture.

A student from Dallas mentioned that there's a lot of cattle farming in her part of the country, but she didn't know how to make sure she was getting locally grown beef.

Typical of the touring students are Kyla Allen of Glen Mills and Hannah Drexler from Lewisburg, both in Pennsylvania. They're 16 and will be juniors this fall in their respective high schools. Glen Mills is near Philadelphia, whihc Lewisburg is north of Lancaster.

This was an unsafe situation -- for me. Sows don't welcome intruders in their pens, near their newborn pigs.

The students seemed fascinated by sows and their newborn younguns. They learned that a litter might include the offspring of several boars.

Many made pictures to send home or post online.

Arriving at the farm, the touring students climbed from the modern, self-sustained bed-and-breakfast toward the pig pens.

Melissa McCarthy, her flag, and the cart she has been pulling across the country for the last three summers. This year she started southeast of Chicago in March. She plans to make it to the coast before fall.

Cross-country walker Melissa McCarthy shows a picture of herself and her cart atop Loveland Pass in Colorado, at the continental divide, summer before last, the first season in her walk across the country.

. . . needs to get spilled all over the road. When a truck hauling corn did battle with a FedEx truck, neither emerged victorious.

Overlooking a farm I like to photograph. The snow is supposed to begin overnight; maybe a meteorologist would be able to tell that from the clouds, but I can't.

The ocean is beautiful beyond the trees, isn't it? Except that this was taken in Ohio, hundreds of miles from the ocean. That blue is the sky.

People were seriously inconvenienced by the quarter-inch or so of snow this early Monday morning. People are weenies.

I think that if you didn't know it you would be hard pressed to tell that this was taken with a fisheye lens and is uncorrected. It is one of my favorite scenes, as you'll notice if you look through all the pictures here. It's on a bad curve in the road, so I may end up like a groundhog one of these days while photographing there. Oh, well. Cattle, corn, grass, trees, hills, big red barn and silo -- here's southeastern Ohio!