The tropics have temporarily set up camp here a few degrees south of 45 degrees North, with a run of wet, humid days. Not quite as hot as the actual tropics might be during the intermissions between rain, but warm enough.

That didn’t keep us at home this weekend, and on Saturday while tooling along U.S. 20 in Bartlett, Illinois (Lake Street, locally), we noticed that Tom’s Farm Stand was open for the season. The sight of the stand inspired in Yuriko a sudden hankering for corn on the cob, so we stopped.

Tom’s is between the road and a wall of corn.

I don’t know whether that cornfield is part of the farm. That would certainly be convenient for Tom or his heirs, but anyway we found corn for sale, along with other opportunities to take still life photography.

Also known as the Bartlett Farm Stand, it seems.

Other chalkboard signs.

My images didn’t capture it, but the place was fairly busy. I don’t know whether you can call the stand a Bartlett institution or not, but it does have staying power: founded in 1961, just like me, and maybe going to outlast me.