It is a life built around natural cycles. The people who live that life are grateful to be part of it. The fourth generation of Evans kids now live on this little farm in southern Minnesota with the magic, winding, corn-skirted lane. Many things have changed but the cycles of life are still the same. Elizabeth, Claire and David see it and feel it, every day as they walk to the bus.
Seed is planted in the spring, then tiny shoots of corn begin to poke through the soil.
Soon, individual plants fall into lines, faint green stripes coloring the fields. Every day the plants grow. By the last week of school the field is a mass of green leaves waving in the wind. The corn grows all summer, taller every day until it's topped with a tassel. Then the ears form and start to fill with yellow kernels.